Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive.
I like doing comedy, I like doing drama. Naturally I like to do, I like doing dramas, I like conflict, and when I do a comedy, you know, I've found that, like, romantic comedy is the trickiest one, because often it's neither: it's not romantic and it's not funny. So, like, I like a comedy that's biting. It's biting humor or really quirky humor.
I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, they're going to love one book. People who read my books for the mystery, they might not like that book quite as much.
A sense of humor is important. I'm always attracted to a girl with confidence. In terms of looks, I don't have a type. I think a lot of girls think that they have to be super-thin, to meet the Hollywood image, but I think a girl who is voluptuous is very beautiful.
The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
I have a dark sense of humor.
Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know if he had such a sense of humor.
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.
The times I've tried not to be funny, it's never worked, and the times I'm trying not to be dark and just be funny, that never works, either. As varied as my subject matter is, I think the worldview is pretty consistent: seeing darkness and seeing humor.
Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say and it's true, I do have a certain fondness for women that have dark hair.
I was certainly not a class clown; I confused and angered a lot of people with my sense of humor.
What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!
A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.
Dali had a good sense of humor - obviously you could tell just looking at him; he was funny.
You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.
I'm going to do a lot of weird stuff that's not going to be like me prancing around like an insane 12-year-old. I showed everybody that side of me and I think it's time to do different stuff, even when it comes down to the type of humor. I want to do some drier, weirder stuff.
Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
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.
Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.
Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.
I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.
It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I'm still looking for that.
I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.
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?
The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
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.
The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.