501 private quotes tagged humor

“I think I'm too cynical for L.A. My sense of humor doesn't go down well here, which probably affects my love life. I need to have a laugh track following me around so people know I'm trying to be funny.” — Teddy Thompson

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“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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“Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.” — Patricia Highsmith

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“You can't do anything to be funny. That's cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place of love every time, you don't make the joke bigger than you. The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.” — John Krasinski

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“I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.” — Patricia Clarkson

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“G.I. humor is similar to cop humor.” — Nelson DeMille

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“Humor is healing.” — Brad Garrett

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“There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!” — Naomi Watts

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“All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way.” — Patrick Warburton

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“But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.” — Seth Grahame-Smith

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“I think it's because it's so different and it takes risks. Plus, it's really smart humor. It gives the audience credit in terms of not needing to tell them when to laugh. I love that about the show. There's no laugh track.” — Sarah Chalke

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“Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.” — Ned Rorem

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“The script was just the best I'd read in a long time and I love the humor, which I wasn't expecting, and I like the fact that my six year old daughter can see the show without being, you know, protected from it.” — Stephen Collins

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“I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.” — Brendan Coyle

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“I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.” — Brendan Coyle

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“But because it was able to balance that kind of humor with a sweet story and characters you really rooted for and also got across the girls' point of view, I've heard nothing but great things from younger and older females as well.” — Jason Biggs

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“Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.” — Jonathan Shapiro

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“I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.” — Anjelica Huston

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“If you can understand the humor in the drawing part you'll probably get the humor in the audio part.” — Eric San

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“Well, the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.” — Jonathan Winters

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“Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.” — Max Irons

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“I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.” — Michael Buble

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“I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.” — Shelley Berman

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“The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.” — Bert Williams

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“Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.” — Steve Allen

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