Humour Quotes

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.

It's the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour.

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.

I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.

I like to always have humour in whatever I do.

I think, for me, humour needs to be used like a strong spice - sparingly.

The journalists have obviously failed to capture my innate magnetism, humour and charisma, and they all need to be fired from their newspapers right away.

We had to do the same thing here. To top that sequel was quite a task. Mike had a couple of good conceptual humour and character ideas, which got me back into it.

Well, he doesn't make me laugh. I think I've got a fair sense of humour but I can't really see it in him. I've listened to his show on the radio on a Saturday morning, and that's a load of mince as well.

Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour.

Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me.

I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony.

There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.

Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.

When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.

If you don't have humour, then you may as well nail the coffin lid down now.

I definitely try to mix humour into anything I do, even if it is into a drama.

While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.

It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy.

I think that London is very much like that. I find there's humour in the air and people are interesting. And I think that it's a place which is constantly surprising. The worst thing about it? I think it can be smug and aggressive.

I don't want to sound facetious, but humour is the key to the soul. You know what I mean?

I enjoy humour more than anything, I don't really sit around banging my head and crying all the time.

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

My comedy is for children from three to 93. You do need a slightly childish sense of humour and if you haven't got that, it's very sad.

The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my mum would make weird funny comments. I can see in myself her self-deprecating, hippie humour. I can't take myself too seriously.

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

I identify with this guy's frustration and inability to control his fury at moments. I even identify with the way that this guy covers up a lot with humour. So yeah, it's interesting.