Top 100 Quotes About Sense Of Humor
#1. 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
#2. Life ain't easy. Terrible things happen to everyone. You have to keep your sense of humor, give something of yourself to others, make friends who are younger than you, learn new things, and have fun.
George Vaillant
#3. The world has a harder time breaking a good sense of humor, John Gramm
Natasha Larry
#4. I have a dark sense of humor, so I definitely like to work on stuff like that. I do enjoy working in comedies where I can create a fun and broad character.
Fiona Gubelmann
#5. I love a sense of humor, I love intelligence, I love specificity, I love surprises. I'm inspired to get out of bed in the morning and fill my day with good things.
Michael Stuhlbarg
#6. We had any number of clocks surrounding us, and every one of them at one time or another exhibited a lively sense of humor.
Joshua Ferris
#7. 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
#8. His sense of humor was permanently replaced by the Pythagorean Theorem.
Dima Zales
#9. Don't forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
Ina May Gaskin
#10. Bright Side wasn't only my best friend; she was like my other half ... the other half of my brain, the other half of my conscience, the other half of my sense of humor, the other half of my creativity, the other half of my heart.
Kim Holden
#11. There are many things we can live without but a sense of humor is not one of them!
Judy Woodruff
#12. Keep a sense of humor, that keeps you balanced, and you'll do quite well with it all, I'm sure.
Frederick Lenz
#13. A sense of humor ... is superior to any religion so far devised.
Tom Robbins
#14. If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
Al Franken
#15. A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
Clifton Fadiman
#16. 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
#17. We boarded the plane after boxing our stakes and knives and taking them to a FedEx carrier, airport security being so strict nowadays. In the section marked 'contents', Bones filled out 'Tofu'. God, but he had a sick sense of humor sometimes.
Jeaniene Frost
#18. One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.
Ayn Rand
#19. A genuine sense of humor is having a light touch: not beating reality into the ground but appreciating reality with a light touch. The basis of Shambhala vision is rediscovering that perfect and real sense of humor, that light touch of appreciation.
Chogyam Trungpa
#20. Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.
Robert Morgan
#21. 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
#22. Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.
Jack Germond
#23. I think a sense of humor is a very personal thing and I don't know if I am talented enough to do romantic comedies.
Charlize Theron
#24. Miss Langman was often, in interviews, described as a witty conversationalist; how can a woman be witty when she hasn't a sense of humor? - and she has none, which was her central flaw as a person and as an artist.
Truman Capote
#25. I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.
Zac Efron
#26. I think I have a good sense of humor, but I'm not, like, a joke-teller. I get the jokes, which is sometimes half the battle. Believe me, I have no idea why anyone hires me ...
Mila Kunis
#27. A sense of humor is a sense of proportion. It is also a sense of delight
delight in noting life has its incongruities and absurdities and that we can live in spite of them.
John Frederick Nims (WESTERN WIND: AN INTRODUCTION TO POETRY)
Margaret Jean Langstaff
#28. But the lack of a sense of humor was an insurmountable defect, in my opinion.
Jeaniene Frost
#29. A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.
Thornton Wilder
#30. I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home.
Cathy Guisewite
#31. It isn't as simple as a fascination of the flesh. It's everything about her that I love: her intelligence, her ambition, her talent, her sense of humor, her dependability, her kindness.
Kristen Zimmer
#32. If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.
Alan Thicke
#33. I think some of the big characters, you know, they do these adventures, but they've got something about them, they've got this charisma, and they've got to have a sense of humor. Because whether it be very dry, or very silly, they've got to be likable.
Rhys Darby
#34. I decided long ago that life's absurd. If you don't develop a sense of humor, it will drive you mad.
James Maxey
#35. I think Damien Hirst is hilarious. And I think he's a true artist. He's not hilarious first; I think he is a real artist, and I also think he's got an amazing sense of humor.
Jemima Kirke
#36. You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.
Liza Minnelli
#37. People without sense of humor aren't much fun to be around, no matter how far they've gotten.
Jane Stanton Hitchcock
#38. With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
Patrick Wilson
#39. A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
Samuel Butler
#40. My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world.
Warwick Davis
#41. I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.
Gordon Gee
#43. Does God have a sense of humor? He must have if He created us.
Jackie Gleason
#44. Joey, like an idiot, began clucking and calling to the calf, which only startled it into motion, and it raced off to join its parents.
"Moron," said Avani in a low voice.
"Oh, come on. What's the matter, Canada, did they confiscate your sense of humor at the airport?
Jessica Khoury
#45. The city planners in hell either had very bad taste or a strange sense of humor
Sarah Fine
#46. When God created the Earth, he had such a sick wicked sense of humor. He made everything that's wrong feel really, really good.
Miranda Kenneally
#48. I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.
Maira Kalman
#49. If I did not have a sense of humor, I would have long ago killed myself.
Mahatma Gandhi
#50. Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
Tab Hunter
#51. I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#52. As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis.
Priscilla Presley
#53. I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves.
John Malkovich
#54. The 'Twilight' movies are great in their own right, but they certainly don't have any sense of humor to them.
Mark Waters
#55. Like journalists. The police have an extremely sick sense of humor, very guarded, very private, very male, which they need to survive on an everyday level. I don't think anyone has ever managed to tap that on the screen - it would actually be too shocking.
Helen Mirren
#56. I don't think that because you die and move on to somewhere else that you lose your sense of humor.
Peter Jackson
#57. You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.
Steve Irwin
#58. 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
#59. I've heard too many times where people say that I'm this ultra-serious guy. In truth, I've got an extremely absurd sense of humor. I thrive on the absurd - I love it.
Phil Anselmo
#60. Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.
Chad Smith
#61. The darker the film, the more vital everyone's sense of humor is on set.
Eric Bana
#62. The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive.
Geraldine Ferraro
#63. It's very important when making a friend to check and see if they have a private plane. People think a good personality trait in a friend is kindness or a sense of humor. No, in a friend a good personality trait is a Gulfstream.
Fran Lebowitz
#64. It's terrible to write what are essentially comedies for people with no sense of humor. Everyone thinks they have a sense of humor, but observably not.
Whit Stillman
#65. Sarcasm mascarades as the Preppy's sense of humor.
Lisa Birnbach
#66. 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
#67. I've got a sense of humor. I'm a funny guy.
Daryl Hall
#68. I love the Swedish people for their detective novels, their archipelago, their sense of humor, their carbonated vodka, and most especially, for their wonderful hospitality.
Michael Levitt
#69. If someone is genuine, compassionate and kind, that is a turn-on. A sense of humor is a huge turn on, and that goes hand in hand with intelligence.
Jennifer Nettles
#71. When I was at the interview asked how I cope with life's difficulties, I said that saving sense of humor. I'm not lying ...
Eva Longoria
#72. Most of the people in my family were pretty funny. Everyone had a good sense of humor. I came to California right after college, wanting to be a musician.
Andy Kindler
#73. We grow up opposing our parents only to become like them enough to oppose our children who behave as we once did - a reminder of how dreadful we were toward those now vindicated grandparents. And you thought God had no sense of humor.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#74. And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.
Paul McCartney
#75. Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.
Dan Auerbach
#76. Thank heaven I don't inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. He's kind and sympathetic and imaginative and forgiving and understanding - and He has a sense of humor.
Jean Webster
#78. I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character ... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.
Wallace Shawn
#79. I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.
Kyle Chandler
#80. 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
#81. Kipling: Where's your sense of humor?
Rebis: We're working on reconstructing it ...
Grant Morrison
#82. And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.
Kurt Vonnegut
#83. One thing you must never lose is courage. If you believe in the goal you are striving for, you will be courageous. There are many difficult times ahead, but you must keep your sense of humor, work through the tough situations, and enjoy yourself!
Shigesato Itoi
#84. Vaclav Havel had this great sense of humor. And you kind of felt that he was making a little bit fun of everything at the same time.
Judy Woodruff
#85. Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America - that and a sense of humor that just couldn't be enslaved.
Redd Foxx
#86. The more women sit down and write something in a woman's voice for a woman, they more you'll see women in comedy because gender doesn't define sense of humor. Imagination and intelligence and perspective do.
Kristen Schaal
#87. 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
#88. Tatiana hugged him and said, "And here's mine: 'Honey, what do you prefer - my beautiful body or my beautiful face?'"
"Your sense of humor," returned Alexander, holding her to him until she couldn't breathe.
Paullina Simons
#89. Everyone says that I have no sense of humor, then I construct a perfectly sound pun around a well-known psychological condition, and it is ignored.
Eoin Colfer
#90. And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
Robert Montgomery Knight
#91. There's a sense of humor within the Australian culture that prevails when one is in a rather difficult situation.
Guy Pearce
#92. But that's what I love about punk music. It has a sense of humor about itself, doesn't pretend to be something it's not. It's kickass funk with a heavy-metal edge, but with a conscience. Good
Rachel Cohn
#93. When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?
Max Frisch
#94. The real important things are kindness and a sense of humor. I've been fortunate to have dated and could have easily married women who have those qualities, and time and circumstances didn't work out. Timing plays a big part.
Hill Harper
#95. My wife has a keen sense of humor. The more I humor her, the better.
Henny Youngman
#96. I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.
Simon Pegg
#97. I was always the clown in school. I had a personal put down sense of humor. I wasn't vindictive. I didn't make fun of people.
Jim Dale
#98. In life there are going to be some things that make it hard to smile. Through all the rain and pain you got to keep your sense of humor and smile for me now. Remember that.
Tupac Shakur
#99. I think you really have to tap into your sense of humor in order to survive.
Taylor Swift
#100. I had these slinky eyes and a sense of humor.
Myrna Loy
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