I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.
I love doing comedy. You don't get many good comedy scripts. They're rare. But, I do love playing comedy. Even in drama, I like to try to find the humor because I think it's very human.
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.
I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.
We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.
I think, in our darkest moments, you have to find the humor, and you have to find the lightness.
My wife is Swedish, so I'm familiar with the Scandinavian kind of odd humor. It's very dark and very deadpan.
I just am a snob when it comes to humor.
I realized women and humor were linked very closely.
However, frat-boy humor is funny and it always will be.
In business, there are times when you disagree, and sometimes it turns out that you're just plain wrong. Humor takes away tension and helps you realize you're wrong.
Humor, humility, and, of course, honesty, all are qualities that work in public and cultural diplomacy.
But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something.
And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor.
I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.
My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.
You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.
My experience growing up in London and growing up in a working class background is that when people are down and out, that's when they're probably the funniest. They have to be. That's what they do to cope, to find joy, 'cause they don't feel the joy inside. Or they use humor to keep people out.
I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.
Confidence and a good sense of humor can usually win a chick over.
Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.
The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
I tend to like dry humor.
It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?
I've got a sense of humor. I'm a funny guy.
As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset.
Ontologically, chocolate raises profoundly disturbing questions: Does not chocolate offer natural revelation of the goodness of the Creator just as chilies disclose a divine sense of humor? Is the human born with an innate longing for chocolate? Does the notion of chocolate preclude the concept of free will?
'The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.
There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.
Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.
I'm a big fan of independent girls who are strong-willed, vocal in their opinions, and have a sense of humor.
Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.
Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.
I'm not sure. But that bless-his/her-heart kind of melancholic humor is among my favorite things in the world. I guess it exposes a kind of humanity - or that's the hope, at least - a kind of grudging respect for human frailty. Unless it's actually kicking human frailty while it's down - I'm not sure.
Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons.
When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard.
I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.
I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.
It used to take me forever to read and comprehend stuff, so I decided not to make the 'Captain Underpants' books too challenging. Don't get me wrong - the humor and ideas are often sophisticated - but the books aren't hard to read. I wanted kids who hate reading to find these books irresistible.
A book without potty humor is like a banana split without hot fudge. It can still be good, I suppose, but you kinda get the feeling that something is missing.
I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.
I've learned to have a sense of humor about myself. Lord knows everyone else does!
Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.
I think it's a brilliant tool to have, not only to have a sense of humor, but to be able to use humor to help one navigate life, and I tend not to be that type of person. I wish I were.
I'll do humor about myself, I'll poke fun and everything, but that's me and I can do it to me. I think it's cruel to do it to somebody else.
My dad was very much a John Wayne kind of guy, but he was also a great guy, great sense of humor, a real dedicated dad. I don't think he ever missed a hockey game I was in.
I'm really happy I went to a Catholic school because a lot of the repressive tactics they use make for great senses of humor.
I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn't take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own.