Top humor Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of humor quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Lara Flynn Boyle
Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.
- Lara Flynn Boyle
Collection: Humor
Image of J. G. Ballard
Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
- J. G. Ballard
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Image of Josh Gad
I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.
- Josh Gad
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Image of Ayelet Waldman
I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them.
- Ayelet Waldman
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Image of Ian Frazier
I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
- Ian Frazier
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Image of Steve Buscemi
I read the script and decide if a particular character looks fun to play. I look for complexity and a sense of humor. Those are crucial, real things to life.
- Steve Buscemi
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Image of Claire Scovell LaZebnik
Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.
- Claire Scovell LaZebnik
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Image of Carl Hiaasen
Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
- Carl Hiaasen
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Image of Alan King
There's a charm, there's a rhythm, there's a soul to Jewish humor. When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, 'You're doing a Jewish act.'
- Alan King
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Image of Lynda Barry
If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.
- Lynda Barry
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Image of Colm Meaney
I love doing comedy. You don't get many good comedy scripts. They're rare. But, I do love playing comedy. Even in drama, I like to try to find the humor because I think it's very human.
- Colm Meaney
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Image of Colin Quinn
For the most part, comedians are pretty friendly with each other. They always say they badmouth each other, but most of the time, they're friends. We're the only ones that can really stand our type of humor.
- Colin Quinn
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Image of Erik von Detten
In a girl I look for honesty above all, someone who I can carry on a conversation with, someone who has a good sense of humor, someone who's true to herself, and to top it, someone who can get ready for a date in less than ten minutes.
- Erik von Detten
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Image of Carrie Preston
Back in 2004, Kellie Overbey handed me her play 'Girl Talk' to read. I fell in love with her brutally delicious humor and the fearlessly deft way in which she drew her characters. They jumped off the page and begged me to give them a space in which to stomp around.
- Carrie Preston
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Image of Allen Klein
Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.
- Allen Klein
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Image of Bill Plympton
I think it's part of the responsibility of an artist to shock, to upset, to make people think differently, and to surprise people. And that's where the good humor is, if there's a surprise and there's something unexpected. Something that's not normal, not in the realm of general living expectations.
- Bill Plympton
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Image of Thomas Carlyle
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
- Thomas Carlyle
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Image of Luvvie Ajayi
People use the guise of art, and artistic expression, to do all kinds of hateful things. It's like Trump and everybody else using the guise of humor to say hateful things, the excuse being, 'I was just being funny.'
- Luvvie Ajayi
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Image of Henry Selick
I'm looking at some comedic horror films because I have often been accused of being too dark. I'm not dark, not compared with 'Saw' or anything like that. So I'm looking at live-action horror films, but not slasher ones - ones that have humor and maybe some social satire.
- Henry Selick
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Image of Bob Newhart
I think there's a little confusion between humor and 'gross' passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable, because they aren't the same thing.
- Bob Newhart
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Image of Ben Stiller
I'm not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
- Ben Stiller
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Image of Aleksey Igudesman
From the very beginning, I started doing music performances with a lot of theatrical aspects to them, where humor was a part of it but not necessarily had to be. Humor is just another tool to make the palette more rich and interesting for myself and eventually for the public. It's a great way to break out of convention.
- Aleksey Igudesman
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Image of Andrew Scott
I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring.
- Andrew Scott
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Image of Paula Poundstone
I have a very silly sense of humor. I've never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe.
- Paula Poundstone
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Image of Paul Feig
What's great about the geek spirit is that life never seems to stop us, and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm, our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. We keep our sense of humor, we protect our dignity, we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the very next day.
- Paul Feig
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Image of Betty White
I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.
- Betty White
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Image of Ian Frazier
I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
- Ian Frazier
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Image of Allen Klein
In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets; you may not find something to laugh about immediately.
- Allen Klein
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Image of Jeff Ross
Athletes tend to have less of a sense of humor than most people. They are heroes to so many. That might be part of it.
- Jeff Ross
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Image of Allen Klein
When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.
- Allen Klein
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Image of Bernard Sahlins
I'm a bug on acting, which distinguishes Second City from a lot of other revues. It comes from the character, the behavior, and not from the jokes. I don't think jokes are funny. Humor comes out of character and out of situations the character is in.
- Bernard Sahlins
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Image of Seth MacFarlane
Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.
- Seth MacFarlane
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Image of Bill Cosby
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
- Bill Cosby
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Image of Bill Cosby
There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
- Bill Cosby
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Image of Bill Cosby
Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
- Bill Cosby
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Image of Harvey Weinstein
Every time I do a movie like 'Finding Neverland' or 'Chocolat' or 'Shakespeare' in Love,' we deal with the creative process, but there's humor and fun along the way. I always love that kind of movie.
- Harvey Weinstein
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Image of Harvey Weinstein
There is nothing like the way people feel after they've seen 'The Intouchables.' They feel amazing. The word of mouth on this film is incredible. It's intelligent-feeling good. You're not insulted by the low-browness or stupidity of some of the humor. It's so smart and terrific.
- Harvey Weinstein
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Image of Bill Cosby
George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.
- Bill Cosby
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Image of Bill Cosby
Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire.
- Bill Cosby
Collection: Humor
Image of Bill Cosby
Racial humor was about 35% of my act when I first started. But I realized that it was a crutch. What brought it home was when another comedian said to me, 'If you changed color tomorrow, you wouldn't have any material.' He meant it as a put-down, but I took it as a challenge.
- Bill Cosby
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Image of Sam Walton
Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.
- Sam Walton
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Image of Robert Collier
Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.
- Robert Collier
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Image of Brian Eno
I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence, heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
- Brian Eno
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Image of Wavy Gravy
Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.
- Wavy Gravy
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Image of John Gerzema
Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.
- John Gerzema
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Image of Patch Adams
Humor is an antidote to all ills.
- Patch Adams
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Image of Gigi Hadid
We get to live in a time that we get to use social media as a tool. It's not just a face on a piece of paper, and that's what makes you someone's favorite model. We can have a very similar sense of humor as someone, and that's why we're their favorite model, or our personal style, off the runway, is why we're their favorite.
- Gigi Hadid
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Image of Bob Newhart
People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.
- Bob Newhart
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Image of Victoria Beckham
I think the sexiest thing about a woman is confidence, but confidence in a humble way, not in an arrogant way. Sense of humor is definitely important. And sunglasses always hide a multitude of sins. Sunglasses and a great pair of heels can turn most outfits around.
- Victoria Beckham
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Image of J. Robert Oppenheimer
In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Collection: Humor