Funny Quotes to Make You Laugh – Page 8 | GloryQuotes

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Leo Rosten

I always thought of Levittown as a joke.

Bill Griffith

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

John Guare

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

Andy Warhol

I'd love to do acting, but it'd definitely have to be comedy. I can't do serious. It's completely beyond me.

Allan Carr

Humor comes from self-confidence.

Rita Mae Brown

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.

Lawrence Kasdan

Dali had a good sense of humor - obviously you could tell just looking at him; he was funny.

Joe Grant

People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny, primitive instinct.

Phillip Noyce

Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.

Ted Rall

What was funny if you were there is that we were all immensely sophisticated people who knew exactly what she was going to say and we're chatting away, nice to see you.

Anthony Holden

Tool of Communist agitators... it's really a joke, isn't it? Because, quite clearly, we are a party of real moderates. It just shows how little they understand.

Helen Suzman

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor.

Avi Arad

When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.

Allen Klein

If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

Roger Ebert

We're starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we're allowed to.

Lisa Guerrero

All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.

Yahoo Serious

Comedy is only as stupid as you are smart.

Brian Celio

Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.

John Betjeman

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.

Thomas Hobbes

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Tom Bodett

The funny thing is, strangers still seem to feel comfortable coming up to me and saying things, but now usually it's because they recognize me, and they say nice things.

Todd Solondz

Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play.

Peter Shaffer

I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.

James L. Brooks

I laughed, even if I was the butt of the joke.

Pete Waterman

Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny.

Beth Henley

I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me.

Richard Russo

I don't have a very quick sense of humor.

Florenz Ziegfeld

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

Max Eastman

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

H. G. Wells

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

W. S. Merwin

Chevy Chase and Bill Murray - we thought those guys were funny. We love Bill Murray, but we didn't think they were right for Airplane! because it would step on the joke if there was a known comedian.

David Zucker

Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.

William Collins

It perhaps has a chance, a commercial chance, this film. It's funny, it's charming, the idea is original, it's unusual and it makes fun of the movie industry in a way that it needs to be poked fun at.

Mark Rydell

Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were.

Leonard Maltin

Well what's funny is, again, people say they believed what was going on, but again, Bob's hands are about three times bigger than his feet. So these are very caricatured.

Brad Bird

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

Henri Bergson

When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh.

Barry Sonnenfeld

Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.

Will Durst

It's a funny old world.

Margaret Thatcher

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

Thomas W. Higginson

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

Max Eastman

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

Freeman Dyson

The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don't think it's funny, but you're convinced that other people will think it is, well they won't.

Mo Rocca

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

Bill Nye