People Quotes

I wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed, and I wasn't the biggest, so I got real good at running my mouth and making people laugh and using humor as a way to not get into fights.

~ Rob Riggle

A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.

~ Maynard James Keenan

I've heard too many times where people say that I'm this ultra-serious guy. In truth, I've got an extremely absurd sense of humor. I thrive on the absurd - I love it.

~ Phil Anselmo

I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.

~ Kyle Chandler

Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.

~ Zach Anner

Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.

~ Zach Anner

People who know me know I have a sense of humor that can really push the envelope.

~ Carmen Electra

Every black film feels like it's Tyler Perry, and that just needs to stop. But people seem to slowly be looking for what else is out there - 'Is there something else besides this type of humor?' 'I'm tired of seeing men in dresses.'

~ Issa Rae

The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives, without a sense of humor, I don't know how people make it.

~ Marlo Thomas

Both conservatives and liberals watch 'Parks and Recreation,' and they each think the show is for them, which is really cool. 'SNL' was totally different. It was exciting because everyone was paying attention. Political humor works when people know what you're talking about.

~ Amy Poehler

Maybe the bar is low, but most of the strips that are 50, 60, 70 years old that are on their second or third generation of artists, the humor is pretty bland. There are others by people that were raised on 'Family Guy' or 'South Park' that are edgier. Mine's not as edgy as those, but it's edgier than 'Beetle Bailey.'

~ Stephan Pastis

I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.

~ Ian Mackaye

People with no humor, they're outta my life.

~ Patti Labelle

I'm a big fan of gallows humor. When my aunt passed away, she was in a coma for a day before my cousins pulled the plug. And the amount of joking and base humor that went on that day around her bed was so insane. It's crazy how people talk when something horrible is happening.

~ Amanda Peet

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

~ Robert Benchley

Even celebrities, most people have a sense of humor. Most of the people we meet who we've done on the show, like it.

~ Matt Stone

People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.

~ Ian Frazier

People always ask me how I manage to find humor in so much bleakness. I think this is almost a necessary skill to have.

~ Petina Gappah

There's such an odd, eclectic group of people that make up the town of Plymouth, New Hampshire. I don't think I could avoid not coming out of there with a pretty good sense of humor.

~ Eliza Coupe

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

I think shows that are completely dramatic are a lie. People use humor to cope. That is how we deal with things. In the darkest situations, there's humor. And if you don't show that, you're not being true to real life.

~ Jenji Kohan

Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the priesthood. That immigrant Jewish humor is still with us.

~ Robert Klein

I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.

~ Harland Williams

My uncle worked in emergency wards dealing with people who came in with terrible injuries. He talked about the sketch shows they would put on to lighten the atmosphere. You often find this sense of grim humor in hospitals. The injuries people are suffering are ghastly. You have to laugh at something or you'd otherwise cry.

~ Honeysuckle Weeks

The main problem with films is that everybody always thinks of us as a violent people. We are not. We are spiritual. And when you show someone without a sense of humor or families, which is the way you usually see Indians in movies, then they are without a spiritual base and become subhuman.

~ Michael Horse

A lot of people say, 'Hey, God doesn't have a sense of humor.' Yes, He does. God has a great sense of humor.

~ Si Robertson

People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature.

~ Roy Blount

Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.

~ Jonathan Shapiro

As people, we're generally optimistic, no matter how disabled our lives are, and we find the humor in the darkest situations.

~ John Wells

A lot of my humor centers on the act of telling jokes and I think this can prevent certain audiences from suspending their feeling of disbelief. It might piss a few people off, but I can't help it.

~ Michael Showalter

The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing offensive, but the truth is that most humor originates in what would be called bad taste.

~ Robert Mankoff

All the people who follow me on Twitter know my sense of humor. I sometimes forget the blogosphere will give it more weight than I intended.

~ Kurt Sutter

I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting when there's an element of humor to it.

~ Jonathan Tropper

I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.

~ Richard Lewis

It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.

~ Edgar Rice Burroughs

People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it's a sense of humor. If you've got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive.

~ Phil Keoghan

I love the Swedish people for their detective novels, their archipelago, their sense of humor, their carbonated vodka, and most especially, for their wonderful hospitality.

~ Michael Levitt

You need to talk about sex with a sense of humor, especially because sex is a sensitive area for a lot of people.

~ Paige Turco

Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

~ Daryn Kagan

Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.

~ Jonathan Haidt