I’m a huge fan of Steve Martin. He’s hilarious, but he has this depth to him and this way of dealing with the difficult things in life with a sense of humor that I think has helped me as an actress. – Alexandra Daddario
A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me. – Chevy Chase
With humor, it’s so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy. – Calvin Trillin
I think it’s part of the responsibility of an artist to shock, to upset, to make people think differently, and to surprise people. And that’s where the good humor is, if there’s a surprise and there’s something unexpected. Something that’s not normal, not in the realm of general living expectations. – Bill Plympton
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it. – Bill Cosby
People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail. – Bob Newhart
The wealthy don’t have any sense of humor. It’s not like the English, where the theater is perhaps the one place where they have a sense of humor about themselves. – Alec Baldwin
I realize that humor isn’t for everyone. It’s only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive. – Anne Wilson Schaef
Let’s not call physical comedy falling down and pratfalls. All humor is physical, no matter how you dish it out. It’s timing, like a dancer or an athlete would have. – Chevy Chase
I think, in our darkest moments, you have to find the humor, and you have to find the lightness. – Corey Hawkins
I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked, like in some countries. And I also love how new America is. – Antonio Banderas
I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy. – Brendan Coyle
Down the road, I’ll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor. – Alanis Morissette
I don’t know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood. – Bonnie Hunt
I lean toward anything with a dark sense of humor. And since I’ve been out of school, the majority of my books have been contemporary; basically, I like my characters to have electricity – even better, a TV. – Andrea Seigel
Racial humor was about 35% of my act when I first started. But I realized that it was a crutch. What brought it home was when another comedian said to me, ‘If you changed color tomorrow, you wouldn’t have any material.’ He meant it as a put-down, but I took it as a challenge. – Bill Cosby
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter. – Alice Meynell
We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment. – Bil Keane
Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author’s job is to tell the truth. – Barry Eisler
Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed. – Arlo Guthrie
There’s not a lot of other stuff I admire about his content, but there’s something about Howard Stern and his perseverance in a very difficult industry. He does tickle me in certain ways with humor. – Ashleigh Banfield
Our first show, ‘A Little Nightmare Music,’ encompasses a lot of zany humor with beautiful classical music. – Aleksey Igudesman
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