Top 100 Have A Sense Of Humor Quotes
#1. I'm a great admirer of Primo Levi's work. It's always mind-boggling, the idea of how much pain people can endure and still come back from the edge with a sense of humor, with this tremendous animal desire we have to get on with life.
Allan Gurganus
#2. People have a sense of humor, even if it's not a good one, and everybody has stakes.
John Krasinski
#3. I'm not that bad," he said. "I'm rich, popular. I have a sense of humor. I'm good looking, and not to mention I have a really big -
J.M. Darhower
#4. People are complex, and I think it's a huge element of what I do, because you have to balance out the fact that you talk about quite serious things with a sense of irony and tongue-in-cheek humor. That's my personality as well.
Marina And The Diamonds
#5. It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
Max Eastman
#6. As Carrie Fisher once said in a film, everyone thinks they have good taste and a sense of humour.
Jane Green
#7. It's weird doing red carpets; it's uncomfortable. But you can have a sense of humor about it.
Kirsten Dunst
#8. I try to give all my characters a sense of humor, so I guess I feel like I have done comedy, but maybe I'm better known for drama.
Kathy Baker
#9. I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know if he had such a sense of humor.
Maira Kalman
#10. In the wise words of Mahatma Gandhi: have a sense of humor.
Drew Chadwick
#11. I have a dark sense of humor,' Fanny explained.
'What's that supposed to mean?' asked Honor.
'It means I'm funny once you get to know me,' Fanny said.
Allegra Goodman
#12. No one would have been invited to dinner so often as Jesus was unless he were interesting and had a sense of humor.
Charles M. Schulz
#13. I wasn't a class clown, because nuns have no sense of humor. They have rulers.
Dan Alatorre
#14. I'm not a traditional politician, and I have a sense of humor. I'll try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to.
Silvio Berlusconi
#15. If you look at it from any other side, it looks like a pile of enormous deer droppings, but Chiron wouldn't let us call the place the Poop Pile, especially after it had been named for Zeus, who doesn't have much of a sense of humor.
Rick Riordan
#16. I have a sense of humor; but over the years that sense has developed one blind spot. I can no longer laugh at ignorance or stupidity. Those are our chief enemies, and it is dangerous to make fun of them.
Charles Francis Richter
#17. Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It's darker, more cutting.
Stephan Pastis
#18. Along with a sense of humor, my songs have to be sincere, and they have to be sung from a position of inner conviction.
Arlo Guthrie
#19. I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of humor. He never has anything funny in his stories.
Elmore Leonard
#20. The leading lady had a large and saving sense of humor. But there is nothing that blunts the sense of humor more quickly than a few months of one-night stands. Even O. Henry could have seen nothing funny about that room.
Edna Ferber
#21. Musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.
Carolyn Wells
#22. These days, all I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another ... Most good people have a sense of humor. The problem is finding smile-inducing evil people, because the evil are mostly humorless.
Dean Koontz
#23. A woman who knows that she doesn't have to get all decked out to look good is sexy. A woman who can make you feel smart with her conversation skills is also sexy. I believe the sense of humor is important.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#24. I forgot," Isabelle muttered as the rest of them caught up to her. "Faeries have no sense of humor."
"Oh, I wouldn't say that," said Jace. "There's a pixie nightclub downtown called Hot Wings. Not," he added, "that I have ever been there.
Cassandra Clare
#25. God really must have had a sense of humor, because if I had to name my biggest turn-on, it was literature. And he had just recommended a book that I didn't know, that wasn't taught in school. If I were single, there would be no better pick-up line.
Kody Keplinger
#26. I never particularly thought of myself as great with girls. I can be awkward, and I have a strange sense of humor at times. But I've also been learning to try and embrace that.
Matt McGorry
#27. I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
Christopher Hitchens
#28. Everybody fancies they have that rare thing, a sense of humour.
Olivia Robertson
#30. A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?
Bob Hope
#31. The problem is that we've got a sense of humor and (Republicans have) got guns. Will we die laughing?
Thomas M. Disch
#32. I have a very dark sense of humor.
Andy Dick
#33. I hang out with the 'nerdy' people - they have a different sense of humor than most kids.
Liam Aiken
#34. If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.
Kate Beckinsale
#35. I have a keen sense of the oblivious
Josh Stern
#36. I take making music seriously, but you have to have a sense of humor about yourself. I invite people into my life. That's how I do it.
Mac DeMarco
#37. You know Death will get you in the end, but if you are smart and have a sense of humor, you can thumb your nose at it for awhile
Jimmy Buffett
#38. Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
Rajneesh
#39. You have to have a sense of humor about it all. You can't take yourself too seriously.
Garth Stein
#40. A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
Catherine Deneuve
#42. My parents have always had a great sense of humor. And I really appreciate good humor in songs, witty lyrics that sneak up on you and then you listen again, and say: 'That's so funny.' John Prine's songs have always had this really witty tone.
Kacey Musgraves
#44. I could never be a lesbian because I have a really good sense of humor.
Bonnie McFarlane
#45. My relationship with my wife is fraught with all of the problems that any couples face, but there is a sense of humor that we have about it and a real desire to want to make it better.
Joe Swanberg
#46. My wife has a good sense of humor, and instead of calling me psychic with my novels, she simply refers to me as being 'psycho.' That's because multiple things in my books have come true.
Brad Thor
#47. Edward Norton and I have known each other awhile. I just think he's the real deal, supremely talented and smart. He's got a great sense of humor.
Kevin Spacey
#48. The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.
Jason Alexander
#49. I chose to stylize 'Among Friends' and add a dark comedic element because I didn't want to get pigeonholed as a genre director. I have a pretty dark sense of humor and knew that in order to get distribution, I had to do something in the genre for my first time out.
Danielle Harris
#50. I said it jokingly, so this guy was just trying to stir something up that's not there. He's just somebody who doesn't have a sense of humor, like I do.
Shaquille O'Neal
#51. It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.
D.H. Lawrence
#52. I need a woman to have a quirky sense of humor. There's a bunch of jokes I use, and if she doesn't get them, she's probably not for me.
Matthew Perry
#53. I think I've learned that if you want to be successful, you have to tell your story honestly and from your heart - and I think a healthy sense of humor doesn't hurt either.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#54. If you're gonna take people on a journey that deals with some pretty heavy themes, I think you best have a sense of humor, here and there.
Francesca Gregorini
#55. I have a very silly sense of humor. I've never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe.
Paula Poundstone
#56. In some respects, if I had to choose just one (virtue on the spiritual path), I'd feel safest with a sense of humor. We pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, have a good laugh about human nature, and get on with our journeys.
Bo Lozoff
#57. I think I'm too cynical for L.A. My sense of humor doesn't go down well here, which probably affects my love life. I need to have a laugh track following me around so people know I'm trying to be funny.
Teddy Thompson
#58. Feminist is so heavy with baggage, negative baggage: You hate men, you hate bras, you hate African culture, you think women should always be in charge, you don't wear makeup, you don't shave, you're always angry, you don't have a sense of humor, you don't use deodorant.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#60. There's something about Southern women that is so unique yet so universal. Strong southern women are allowed to be soft and feminine and have a sense of humor. But what I love about Southern women in particular is their universality.
Connie Britton
#61. From my dad ... I think we have a similar sense of humor. I don't know if that's a good or bad thing, but I think he's funny!
Jenna Bush
#62. It's often pointed out that in Cuban cinema there are too many comedies, but a sense of humor is so much part of the Cuban idiosyncrasy. Curiously, the films that have been censored the most have been humorous.
Fernando Perez
#63. I think it's important to have a good sense of humor and joke around with your kids. That's what I do a lot.
Stanley Tucci
#64. Even celebrities, most people have a sense of humor. Most of the people we meet who we've done on the show, like it.
Matt Stone
#65. 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
#66. Athletes tend to have less of a sense of humor than most people. They are heroes to so many. That might be part of it.
Jeff Ross
#67. You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.
Lance Bass
#68. Without a sense of humor, you don't have much sense at all.
Pen
#69. Sometimes when I try to make jokes or have a sense of humor in interviews, it doesn't go over very well. But Twitter made my life easier in this way that I didn't expect. It would have taken probably 10 times as long for people to accept my voice and my sense of humor if I didn't have Twitter.
Anna Kendrick
#70. Women don't have a sense of humor. They don't need one. The Almighty made them as a permanent joke on men. From which one may logically deduce tha the Almighty is a female.
Loretta Chase
#71. That's because they're people, only smarter. They know us better than we know them, and a lot of them have a sense of humor. They're exactly like us minus our useless mental power and thumbs.
Bob Tarte
#72. My legacy would be that you don't have to give up anything. You can be chic but have a sense of humor, you can be sexy but comfortable, you can be timeless but fresh.
Michael Kors
#73. If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective
Wayne Thiebaud
#74. Anyone who's married to Mariah Carey - I'm pretty sure - doesn't have a great sense of humor. I mean, let's be honest: she's ridiculous. What is her game plan?
Chelsea Handler
#75. New Rule: Coal companies have to stop calling coal "energy." That's like a lumber company calling wood "fire." Or Budweiser calling beer "urine." Okay, that one kind of makes sense.
Bill Maher
#76. Look, over the years, my unique sense of humor and perverse grasp of honesty may have led to some hurt feelings and long-held grudges. But overall, I'm a pretty likable person.
Molly Harper
#77. When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.
Ted Danson
#78. I've learned to have a sense of humor about myself. Lord knows everyone else does!
Debbie Gibson
#79. I think American guys tend to be a bit more forward, a bit more chatty and open than the Brits. The Brits seem to have a darker sense of humor, though I have met some Americans who have adopted bits of the British dry sense of humor as well.
Hayley Atwell
#80. He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.
Bill Bryson
#81. You have to have a strong sense of humor to date me, and also know that you're probably going to be a part of the routine quite a bit.
Dane Cook
#82. It was hidden inside another book. One Valentine was unlikely to ever open." Magnus smiled crookedly. "Simple Recipes for Housewives. No one can say your mother didn't have a sense of humor.
Cassandra Clare
#83. I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus.
Anne Lamott
#84. History will show that patient boys with a sense of humor, who can dance, tend to have more opportunities to participate in the evolution of the species than boys who give up and mope quietly on the sidelines
Andrew Smith
#85. Schiffer recoiled: "Oh, Jesus Christ, Taryn, don't give me a heart attack," she said, clutching at her chest. "Remember: no sense of humor. How many times do I have to tell you that: No sense of humor. Humor can get you in all kinds of shit and we've got this won, if we don't get funny.
John Sandford
#86. I like Bret Easton Ellis' sense of humor. I feel like mine is sometimes similar to his. And how his characters sometimes seem really confused in a humorous manner. I like that. And I have that sometimes in my characters.
Tao Lin
#87. I have a great sense of humor, but it has an ironic twist to it.
Howard Dean
#88. I couldn't have done 16 months of deployment without a sense of irony. N
Patrick Hennessey
#89. If I didn't have a sense of humor, how could I stand this trial now?
Hermann Goring
#90. You have to fight for your marriage, do whatever it takes. The commitment has to be there. And if you don't have a sense of humor, I don't know how anybody makes it.
Kay Robertson
#91. I have a need to always make people laugh. I have a desperate need. I love a great sense of humor. The people I sort of surround myself with have that.
Peter Dinklage
#92. I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.
Louis C.K.
#93. Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot.
Peter Jennings
#94. Any writer of horror needs to at least have a good, solid love of the genre. Also, good horror writers need to have a slightly twisted sense of humor. Without humor, horror just isn't as good.
Alistair Cross
#95. Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
Harry S. Truman
#96. I had no way to have a sense of humor about The Exorcist. I didn't know how. And this enabled me.
Linda Blair
#97. I wish I could be as thin as Jessica Simpson. I think she looks gorgeous! I have had Jessica on my show several times, and I can tell you that girl is genuine and funny with a great self-deprecating sense of humor.
Rachael Ray
#98. Angels have a sense of humor ... The angels wants us to enjoy life. Have a good laugh at yourself every now and again for taking life seriously. Then take time to laugh with the angels!
Margaret Neylon
#99. We spent the rest of the afternoon searching for the lost Girl Scout troop. We found them asleep, drugged with music. They were curled around a sign that said, "No All-Female Groups Beyond This Point. Satyr Breeding Area." Satyrs have a peculiar sense of humor. I
Laurell K. Hamilton
#100. If you approach Cannes with a sense of humor, nothing is that bad. You have to take it for what it is; otherwise, it's silly.
Mathieu Amalric
