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If you don't have humor, you're not going to make it. You're going to be one of those people who walks around with your head about to explode.

~ James Mcbride

I think humor is such a personal thing, and you put a microphone in somebody's face, they're going to say something that offends somebody.

~ Jane Lynch

I like telling stories with a sense of humor. But humor can also distance you from the subject you're writing about. I'm interested in using humor as a portal to something a bit more serious.

~ Jens Lekman

Let's not call physical comedy falling down and pratfalls. All humor is physical, no matter how you dish it out. It's timing, like a dancer or an athlete would have.

~ Chevy Chase

'Take Shelter' is a tough movie because there's no humor in it, so there's really no way to judge how you're doing - whether people are still with you or not.

~ Jeff Nichols

It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.

~ Joan Jett

Sometimes you can take those dramatic roles and maybe interject a little humor into them, and I think the reverse also works.

~ Dennis Farina

Ingmar Bergman had a great sense of humor, and he had a very special, characteristic laugh that you always recognized - if he went to watch a theater show, 'Ah! He is here tonight.'

~ Max Von Sydow

I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. You just have to get through it.

~ Elaine Stritch

I think, in our darkest moments, you have to find the humor, and you have to find the lightness.

~ Corey Hawkins

If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.

~ Laura Schlessinger

I got my sense of humor from my grandmother. You know, my grandmother was very funny.

~ Paul Mooney

I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.

~ Alexander Payne

I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.

~ Gordon Gee

You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.

~ Steve Irwin

If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.

~ Alan King

And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.

~ 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

Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.

~ Elizabeth Mccracken

Over the years, I've learned that a sense of humor is the only skill that allows you to turn sucking at life into a career.

~ Zach Anner

It's amazing how many companies aren't really in tune to the needs of different travelers. There's just so many embarrassing situations that you go through when you travel. You have to have a sense of humor about it and take it in stride. My whole approach is to embrace spontaneity.

~ Zach Anner

You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.

~ Daniel H. Wilson

You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.

~ Lance Bass

When you meet someone new who instantly gets you, your sense of humor and your attitudes and your worldview, even if theirs are different - and you get them in return. You both talk and talk and agree and laugh and nod and yes, yes, of course you should get another round of drinks.

~ Erin Morgenstern

You can't be funny if you don't have good material.

~ Matt Leblanc

I think there's always room for humor, especially when you're talking about really serious issues.

~ Jay Asher

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.

~ Doug Larson

M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.

~ Loretta Swit

There's a lot of movies, and I've made some of them that could be categorized this way, but there's definitely been a trend in animated features of all types to be a little bit cynical, if you will, to have a little bit of 'knowing' humor to them, kind of a wink to the audience.

~ Kelly Asbury

As a kid, I loved 'Godot' because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, it's much more resonant.

~ Nathan Lane

They don't make you pay for the humor. It's up and down, but they're trying to give you as many laughs as possible in 2 minutes. They are the most honest comedians ever.

~ Mike Judge

If you don't infuse humor into a subject matter, no matter how dark, the audience can't accept the message of a film. It closes them down. Humor can open them up.

~ Theodore Melfi

Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.

~ Ted Rall

With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.

~ Calvin Trillin

Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of other heroes with that acerbic humor when you find it.

~ John Scalzi

I've always littered my songs with jokes. You might need to dig a little deeper to find the humor, but I would totally object to being some kind of distraught personality. I've never tried to attach myself to that.

~ Cass Mccombs

You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.

~ Vanessa Bayer

I'll let you in on a secret: I can't stand Jay Ward. I hate being compared to Rocky and Bullwinkle. It's just a different style of humor.

~ John Kricfalusi

Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?

~ John Kricfalusi

Somebody says, 'Do a Tom Bodett, a folksy kind of thing,' and it sounds like something out of 'Hee Haw,' very insulting. They turn wry humor into disparaging sarcasm, and you get what amounts to insulting advertising.

~ Tom Bodett