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3 December 2020 J. B. Priestley

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself – with a smile.

3 December 2020 Emanuel Celler

Roosevelt’s humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.

3 December 2020 Carl Hiaasen

Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.

3 December 2020 John Ratzenberger

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

3 December 2020 Trey Parker

Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.

3 December 2020 E. B. White

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

3 December 2020 Melissa Rosenberg

My humor tends to be a little more edgy than is appropriate for ‘Twilight,’ although I got some in there. That was fun! There’s just a tonal difference. For me, storytelling is storytelling. But, I do like writing for grown ups.

3 December 2020 Eric Bana

The darker the film, the more vital everyone’s sense of humor is on set.

3 December 2020 Peter Jennings

Have a sense of humor about life – you will need it. And be courteous.

3 December 2020 Patrick Warburton

All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way.

3 December 2020 Alan Thicke

There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on the family. And I think there’s even a place for humor in that.

3 December 2020 Brittany Daniel

Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.

3 December 2020 Avi Arad

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.

3 December 2020 Joe Grant

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

3 December 2020 Allen Klein

Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.

3 December 2020 Constance Rourke

An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.

3 December 2020 Chevy Chase

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.

3 December 2020 Allen Klein

Humor does not diminish the pain – it makes the space around it get bigger.

3 December 2020 Enid Bagnold

If a dog doesn’t put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn’t happen you are only keeping an animal.

3 December 2020 Marlon Wayans

Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn’t comedy I don’t know if Obama could have ever become president.

3 December 2020 Joan Jett

It’s easier to sit there and say you don’t like feminists because they don’t have a sense of humor.

3 December 2020 Ivan Reitman

I don’t think my sense of humor has changed at all I was born with this, for better or for worse.

3 December 2020 Konrad Lorenz

We do not take humor seriously enough.

3 December 2020 Lawrence Kasdan

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

3 December 2020 Allen Klein

Today’s business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone’s job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.

3 December 2020 Al Yankovic

It’s hard to force creativity and humor.

3 December 2020 Mayer Hawthorne

I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What’s life without a sense of humor?

3 December 2020 Groucho Marx

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

3 December 2020 Jonny Lee Miller

I really wouldn’t want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor.

3 December 2020 Jimmy Buffett

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

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