Humour Quotes - Page 25

• We were a very funny family. Humour was the tool with which my brother and I tried to get attention. We were always trying to be the funniest.

  Meg Cabot

  Brother, Always Trying, Funny Family

  "My family values" by Meg Cabot, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2008.

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• I always have humour in my action movies. I think characters that make jokes under fire are more real. It somehow helps put you in their shoes.

  Shane Black

  Real, Character, Thinking

  "Crash, bang, wallop what a picture" by Sam Delaney, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2009.

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• The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no sense of humour.

  George Mikes

  Language, Exquisite, Ifs

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• For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.

  Felicity Kendal

  Laughing, Together, Important

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• Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.

  Takeshi Kitano

  Violence, Unpredictable

  "One original gangster". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2010.

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• I was worried people would laugh at me when I started to talk the language, but they were just pleasantly surprised that I could. The sense of humour here is great - once I could have a giggle, I settled down.

  Parminder Nagra

  People, Laughing, Language

  "She shoots, she scores". Interview with Neil Spencer, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2003.

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• I'm just an actor. If it's drama, I add as much humour as the part will stand. And if it's a comedy, add as much drama as you can, so it balances out; you don't wanna be too serious.

  Michael Pena

  Drama, Balance, Add

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• I think that Americans find the Australian humour and the energy of Australians very refreshing - we are quite self-deprecating, we're light-hearted and can have a laugh.

  Teresa Palmer

  Thinking, Light, Self

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• There's such a unique humour in Wales that I just love and miss in Los Angeles.

  Matthew Rhys

  Unique, Missing, Los Angeles

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• I don't think I've ever made any conscious decision to be a comic artist, but to me there's something quite anarchic about comedy.

  David Shrigley

  Artist, Thinking, Decision

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• When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, make this short speech to yourself: I am getting up now to do the business of a man; and am I out of humour for going about that I was made for, and for the sake of which I was sent into the world? Was I then designed for nothing but to doze and keep warm beneath the counterpane? Well! but this is a comfortable way of living.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Morning, Men, World

  Marcus Aurelius (2013). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”, p.28, Read Books Ltd

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• Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it.

  Stephen Leacock

  Voice, Sorrow, Pathos

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.84, University of Toronto Press

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• All Dickens's humour couldn't save Dickens, save him from his overcrowded life, its sordid and neurotic central tragedy and its premature collapse. But Dickens's humour, and all such humour, has saved or at least greatly served the world.

  Stephen Leacock

  Tragedy, World, Collapse

  Stephen Leacock (2010). “My Remarkable Uncle”, p.114, New Canadian Library

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• Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.

  Stephen Leacock

  Might, Contrast, Comforter

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.84, University of Toronto Press

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• So in all humours sportively I range; My muse is rightly of the English strain, That cannot long one fashion entertain.

  Michael Drayton

  Fashion, Long, Muse

  1594 Ideas Mirrour,'To the Reader of These Sonnets'.

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• I miss my grandmother every day. I miss her vitality, her interest in the lives of others, her courage and determination, her perceptive wisdom, her calm in the face of all difficulties, her steadfast belief in the British people and above all her unstoppable sense of mischievous humour.

  Prince Charles

  Determination, Grandmother, People

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• [W]ithout humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation.

  John Buchan

  Funny, Running, Humor

  John Buchan (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Buchan (Illustrated)”, p.3978, Delphi Classics

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  Two things people throughout history have had in common are hatred and humour. I am proud that I have been able to use humour to lessen people's hatred.

  Richard Pryor

  Two, People, Hatred

  2004 InThe Scotsman, 5 Jun.

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• The great writers like Chekhov know that tragedy and laughter are just a few steps from each other ... but it took me a long time as an actress to learn that. Actually Arthur Miller taught me in the Seventies. We were making a CBS TV drama of his play Playing for Time about Auschwitz but the characters were laughing. It was a big insight for me to realise that that was what's called gallows humour, in this case worse than the gallows, that humans need to laugh and make jokes in order to survive.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Laughter, Drama, Character

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• There are a lot of filmmakers I love whose work doesn't inspire mine at all. For example: Quentin Tarantino. From his films you can see that he has a wicked sense of humour, and I love that!

  Chika Anadu

  Inspire, Wicked, Example

  "Chika Anadu On Her Debut ‘B for Boy,’ Transitioning To Film, Telling ‘Women’s Stories,’ More". Interview with MsWOO, www.indiewire.com. October 29, 2013.

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• I don't think it's aiming at gags, I think the humour is woven into it. It's part of how the characters operate and how they deal with disaster because they're worldly enough to have a bit of irony and wryness about their own circumstances. So, I think the humour comes out of that.

  Colin Firth

  Character, Thinking, Woven

  "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Having a sense of humour is really key. You have to have a sense of humour with these things and I've just tried to remain who I am. My life has changed. It's changed in the fact that I don't have the freedoms I did before, but I've also got a huge amount of other freedoms that came along with it.

  Daniel Craig

  Keys, Who I Am, Facts

  "Daniel Craig Is Lord Asriel in The Golden Compass". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. December 4, 2007.

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• I have an agent in Hollywood and he's looking for material. If I get the offer and I feel I relate to that material, I will do it. I would love to do a horror film, a thriller, a tearjerker... I like diversity. I would just like to sustain my sense of humour!

  Carlos Cuaron

  Diversity, Agents, Hollywood

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• Madness has no sense of humour

  Adam Foulds

  Madness

  Adam Foulds (2009). “The Quickening Maze”, Random House

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• In his own lifetime Jesus made no impact on history. This is something that I cannot but regard as a special dispensation on God's part, and, I like to think, yet another example of the ironical humour which informs so many of His purposes. To me, it seems highly appropriate that the most important figure in all history should thus escape the notice of memoirists, diarists, commentators, all the tribe of chroniclers who even then existed

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Jesus, Thinking, Impact

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1975). “Jesus, the Man who lives”, HarperCollins

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