Me Quotes

Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. It's a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.

~ Billy Collins

My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I'm talking about or not.

~ John Hodgman

My wife has a good sense of humor, and instead of calling me psychic with my novels, she simply refers to me as being 'psycho.' That's because multiple things in my books have come true.

~ Brad Thor

A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways.

~ Courteney Cox

Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.

~ Garry Trudeau

The waltz is a very important part of my life. It's a very important way for me to express my positiveness, bringing humor to the world.

~ Andre Rieu

You're not going to see my sense of humor on the football field. That's not a place for me to joke around.

~ Tom Brady

For me, I really love 'Tim and Eric' and 'Dr. Steve Brule' and a lot of the Adult Swim shows, so I like strange, weird, sometimes slightly upsetting humor.

~ Gillian Jacobs

Since the very beginning, Emeril's had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him.

~ Anthony Bourdain

Sometimes I used to think to myself, 'Have I lost a sense of humor?' but I don't think that I have. I think one can be as snarky and sarcastic as lots of people, but I have never found that it makes me particularly happy.

~ Kenneth Branagh

Going to AA helped me to see that there were other people who had problems that had found a way to talk about them and find relief and humor through that.

~ Carrie Fisher

I think it's critical, a sense of humor. It did help me - it does help me, continuously.

~ Teri Garr

Anyone who knows me, and most of my fans, know that I have a sense of humor.

~ Glenn Danzig

'War on Everyone,' I think... the script was hilarious to me, but it's very dark, dark humor. It's super dark.

~ Michael Pena

Nobody enjoys the 'little show about nothing' humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

~ Jerry Seinfeld

In Buddhism, they say attachment to anything only leads to suffering. So when we laugh, it's our way of saying, 'I'm unattached to that.' You're tickled by it, it makes your lobes do something on their own. So humor is very important to me. I always take that to the stage first.

~ Jason Mraz

I'm a huge fan of Steve Martin. He's hilarious, but he has this depth to him and this way of dealing with the difficult things in life with a sense of humor that I think has helped me as an actress.

~ Alexandra Daddario

I guess, for me, I've always thought that there was humor everywhere. And as a kid, I just, you know, I grew up an only child, and I - sort of nothing made me happier than to make my parents laugh. I remember I had costumes and things laying around the house that I was, you know, anything that I could do to make my parents laugh.

~ Justin Timberlake

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

~ David Lynch

My sense of humor often gets me in trouble.

~ Duncan Jones

I have a sense of humor, and sometimes it gets me into trouble.

~ Duncan Jones

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.

~ Chevy Chase

One of the great things about the Internet is that you can read what everybody has to say about everything. It is fascinating to me, the critiques about humor by people who have no sense of humor.

~ Matt Groening

People, I guess, generally come to see me do stand-up with a working knowledge of my broad sense of humor on 'The Daily Show'... I don't think anyone would mistake me as an actual anchor.

~ John Oliver

Writing is not for me. I completely lose my sense of humor when I write. I become extremely pathetic, very sensational. Images give me possibilities that I don't have with words.

~ Marjane Satrapi

Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.

~ Trey Parker

The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.

~ Jason Alexander

I have such a respect for comedy. It's a lot harder than doing drama, in my opinion; you have to have sort of an innate sense of humor. There are rules to comedy you can learn. But ultimately, it really does require a certain point of view on the world, and that really does appeal to me.

~ Elizabeth Banks

Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.

~ Dee Dee Myers

There's a film I did years ago, 'Love Serenade,' that I still really love. It's such an oddball sense of humor. It was a really special film for me when I did it.

~ Miranda Otto

I need a woman to have a quirky sense of humor. There's a bunch of jokes I use, and if she doesn't get them, she's probably not for me.

~ Matthew Perry

You either have chemistry or you don't, but a lot of what attracts me is a guy's mind and humor and talent. I need to get to know all those things before I fall for someone.

~ Nina Dobrev

You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.

~ Liza Minnelli

For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.

~ Zoe Kravitz

Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.

~ Adam Mansbach

To me, Ann Romney sounds like a better candidate than her husband. She put her MS into remission through horseback riding, alternative therapies, and a healthy diet. She knows how to pace herself. She has a sense of humor and an innate honesty, and her hair moves in the wind. Maybe she should run.

~ Patti Davis

Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Stephen Colbert. Those are the guys I look at who are telling me pretty much the truth. And they throw humor into it which makes it much more interesting to listen to.

~ Grace Slick

For me, humor is everything!

~ Judy Gold

Mother humor is such a universal theme. I wrote a show called '25 Questions for a Jewish Mother.' I had people coming up to me after the show saying, 'I'm Baptist, and my mother is just like yours.'

~ Judy Gold

I think the thrust of any child is to try to fit in and be part of it. And I can't tell you how many times my humor, you know, what I thought was humor ended up making me the outsider. Like I'd be, I go, 'It's a joke.' And they'd go, 'Well, what was funny?' And they just thought I was insane.

~ Howie Mandel