“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.”
A good sense of humor is a survival skill. These quotes celebrate wit, comedy, sarcasm, and the ability to find something funny in situations that might otherwise be unbearable. Laughter, it turns out, is a form of intelligence.
“A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?”
“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.”
“Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.”
“No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.”
“Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.”
“I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he's doing is easy is an occupational hazard.”
“I have a dark sense of humor.”
“People with no humor, they're outta my life.”
“Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.”
“If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.”
“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.”
“People who know me know I have a sense of humor that can really push the envelope.”
“Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.”
“I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.”
“The darker the film, the more vital everyone's sense of humor is on set.”
“It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.”