Sense Of Humor Quotes - Page 9

• I love straight-face comedy or relatively subtle comedy. And then I turn around and I find myself doing very broad comedy but it's all fun and you have to keep your sense of humor and not take yourself seriously.

  Betty White

  Fun, Faces, Comedy

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• You need to talk about sex with a sense of humor, especially because sex is a sensitive area for a lot of people. The other thing is that you may not want to tell the world everything you do in bed.

  Paige Turco

  Sex, People, Bed

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you haven't got a sense of humor you're making your life a hundred times harder. It doesn't matter what happens to you, if you can have a laugh about it, and don't take yourself so serious, you have the battles halfway won.

  Jack Bruce

  Laughing, Battle, Matter

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• My sense of humor was a tool for me getting past my mother and father separating, my older brother having cerebral palsy, and the bullies in the schoolyard. I had to make them laugh to keep them off my ass. I brought that to my professional career.

  Tracy Morgan

  Mother, Brother, Father

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• Writing is not for me. I completely lose my sense of humor when I write. I become extremely pathetic, very sensational. Images give me possibilities that I don't have with words.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Writing, Giving, Possibility

  "Never Mind the Mullahs". Interview with Vivienne Walt, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2008.

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• Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.

  Colin Powell

  Toil, Break, Tension

  "Transcript: Secretary of State Colin Powell". www.foxnews.com. June 13, 2004.

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• The Australian sense of humor is very dry, sarcastic, and very undercover. Like if I tell any jokes in America, people just think I'm serious! So I just quit telling any jokes whatsoever.

  Heath Ledger

  Sarcastic, Thinking, America

  "Remembering Heath Ledger" by Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. January 23, 2008.

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• I think if you have someone without a sense of humor, you're less likely to be together.

  Ed Sheeran

  Thinking, Together, Ifs

  "Exclusive: Ed Sheeran Tells Us the Song He'd Write for Taylor Swift, Dating Advice, and His Fave Redhead". Interview with Anna Moeslein, www.glamour.com. May 3, 2013.

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• A big part of the humor is in identifying with the tragic elements of the film. The New Zealand sense of humor is very dark. Our films are usually very dark and it's always someone being killed. Usually a child.

  Taika Waititi

  Children, Dark, Elements

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• It's interesting, the worse things get in cities, the tougher that cities get, the more brutal the humor is. The tougher things people face, the darker the sense of humor gets and I find that incredibly optimistic.

  Danny Boyle

  Optimistic, Cities, People

  "Danny Boyle Talks Sunshine, Space, and Sci-Fi". Interview with Sara Maria Vizcarrondo, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. July 19, 2007.

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• I think a sense of humor is a very personal thing, and I don't know if I am talented enough to do romantic comedies.

  Charlize Theron

  Thinking, Comedy, Enough

  "AWFJ Women On Film – Charlize Theron Talks 'Burning Plain'". Interview with Jen Yamato, awfj.org. September 24, 2009.

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• A sense of humor is an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny.

  Ed Sheeran

  Important, Way, Argument

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Women were afraid of me, they were scared to death. But I always say be yourself, if you're funny then let your sense of humor go there. I mean there's no sense hiding what you feel.

  Don Rickles

  Being Yourself, Mean, Scared

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  When a comic becomes enamored with his own views and foists them off on the public in a polemic way, he loses not only his sense of humor but his value as a humorist.

  Johnny Carson

  Views, Way, Comic

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• I take making music seriously, but you have to have a sense of humor about yourself. I invite people into my life. That's how I do it.

  Mac DeMarco

  People, About Yourself, Invites

  Source: www.self-titledmag.com

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• In comedy, you have to do all of the same stuff you do in drama and then put the comedy on top of it. You, the actor, are aware of the comedy but the character is oblivious. And you have to have a sense of humor.

  Jon Lovitz

  Drama, Character, Stuff

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• A general truth is to have a good sense of humor. Roll with the punches of life's ups and downs. Laughing at yourself always helps.

  Jill Abramson

  Laughing, Helping, Truth Is

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• I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.

  Kristin Hersh

  Fun, Stupid, Humor

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• The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.

  Karen Hughes

  Fun, Humor, President

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• Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.

  Lara Flynn Boyle

  Men, Threatened

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• One thing you must never lose is courage. If you believe in the goal you are striving for, you will be courageous. There are many difficult times ahead, but you must keep your sense of humor, work through the tough situations, and enjoy yourself!

  Shigesato Itoi

  Believe, Goal, Tough

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• 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.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Humor, People

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• A wholesome sense of humor will be a safety valve that will enable you to apply the lighter touch to heavy problems and to learn some lessons in problem solving that "sweat and tears" often fail to dissolve.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Humor, Sweat, Safety

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• I used to be neurotic. I didn't like myself very much. But somewhere in my mid-40s, my neuroses stopped seeming so important. I developed a sense of humor.

  Joanne Woodward

  Important, Neurosis, Used

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• One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.

  Zoey Deutch

  My Family, One Thing

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