Good acting is thinking in front of the camera. I just do that and apply a sense of humor to it. You have to trust the audience to get it.
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.
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross.
Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They kind of keep each other honest, and they enjoy each other's sense of humor. Kind of a sexy but boring relationship.
Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.
There's humor in everything. There's gotta be humor in everything.
It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?
There's a certain kind of guy, a certain kind of humor, that goes with Irish cops and firemen.
A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
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.
Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.
I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
When I did stand-up at U.C.B., and I had a blog for a couple of years that started my writing career, 'Totally Confident and Completely Insecure,' it was the same kind of self-deprecating humor and stories about being out in L.A. and being treated like a loser at a hair salon because you are not famous.
People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.
My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
I have been definitely influenced more by Latin American writers than by any other type of writer. They are very close in terms of voice - their humor, their fatalism, their... well, that over-used term 'magical realism.' It's a wonderful term that's just been used so much, we don't know what it means anymore.
In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.
You're not going to see my sense of humor on the football field. That's not a place for me to joke around.
Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.
I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I've got a dry sense of humor.
I go out and speak to women's groups all the time, and I say, 'Guys, you gotta laugh and find the humor in things. You gotta pass it on.'
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
You have got to have a good sense of humor, you have got to be tough, and you have got to know how to dress.
And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
Humor works, and it's the best way to get attention without spending a lot of money.
People with no humor, they're outta my life.
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.
Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.
