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Women's humor seems to be a little more supportive. It's just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like I'm going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a room full of guys.
Paul Feig on humor

I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.
Lawrence Kasdan on humor

Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.
Flip Wilson on humor

I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.
Alexander Payne on humor

Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
Carl Hiaasen on humor

My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.
Carl Hiaasen on humor

Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
Carl Hiaasen on humor

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
William Temple on humor

I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all I was born with this, for better or for worse.
Ivan Reitman on humor

I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.
Greg Kinnear on humor

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.
Richard Russo on humor

I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he's doing is easy is an occupational hazard.
Richard Russo on humor

Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.
Hattie McDaniel on humor

Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor.
Martin Sheen on humor

You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.
Liza Minnelli on humor

People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.
Lorna Luft on humor

I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do.
Tommy Lee Jones on humor

I think in life, the sense of humor and comedy always exists.
Mike Epps on humor

Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.
Shel Silverstein on humor

I can't not put humor in a book.
Albert Brooks on humor