Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it is in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.

I think I have 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 Does not hurt either.

We are starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we are allowed to.

If I can not see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?

It is very hard to write humor.

Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing's funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.

I do not need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It is very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.

Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and do not tend to take themselves too seriously.

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they are short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.

I have always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.

I am a great believer that what makes our show different is the humor.

Humor that is edgy is never squeaky clean.

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.

I always felt different as a kid, and the Kinks were like, Yeah, we are the Kinks. Celebrate your difference do not be afraid of your sense of humor, or your personality, or who you are. It emboldened me.

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 is even a place for humor in that.

I do not really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.

Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.

He has such a patronizing tone and manner, and such a sarcastic sense of humor. I found him rather brutal, a kind of elegant brutality which appealed. No, I think he came pretty much off the page.