Confidence and a good sense of humor can usually win a chick over.

Professional comedians, surprisingly, have a lack of humor. They're insensitive to the insanity of our times.

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.

Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator... Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or 'stage' Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.

I love dry British humor. I love to sketch in my off time. I love tequila.

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

I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the highest form of humor.

That's how to make a stand-up comedian: You take a person who is uncomfortable and try to squirrel their way out of it through humor.

My parents and my sister died... very close together, and after that, I lost quite a bit of my sense of humor. Most of it I think has kind of come back, but I know there was a time when I didn't think things were funny anymore. I kind of think they're funny again.

Kerry Washington is the most fun: she cracks me up! Everyone talks about how drop-dead gorgeous, smart, and fashionable she is, and she is all of that, but I must add she's the hugest goofball. She has the best sense of humor and lightheartedness that makes coming into work every day so delightful.

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.

I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable.

My daughter doesn't even get my humor. She's like, 'Um, no. I don't get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.'

One seldom expects the country's president to adequately note the passing of a rocker, but Jimmy Carter's assessment of Elvis Presley's appeal - 'energy, rebelliousness and good humor' - is remarkably close to the mark.

We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

The thing that makes 'Dirty Jobs' different is that it's one of the few shows that portrays work in a way that doesn't highlight the drudgery. Instead, it highlights the humor.

I've got a great sense of humor, and if I'm able to say or do something in a movie that people feel like they want to repeat, that's hugely flattering.

We are really living the American dream, to be a successful brand in the States and in Europe and to steep ourselves in our heritage. But we do it with a sense of humor. We don't take ourselves too seriously in fashion.

I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card.

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.

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.

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

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.

I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.

Nobody enjoys the 'little show about nothing' humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.

You have to have a sense of humor about life to get through it.

For some reason, I had a responsibility to my family and the people who lived around me. I felt that I had to convey their dignity - the way they dealt with adversity and poverty - and their good humor.

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.

Let's not call physical comedy falling down and pratfalls. All humor is physical, no matter how you dish it out. It's timing, like a dancer or an athlete would have.

One of the great things about the Internet is that you can read what everybody has to say about everything. It is fascinating to me, the critiques about humor by people who have no sense of humor.

I talk about race and culture, and that's what my fans respond to. If you grew up in an environment where race and culture were never an issue for you, or where you don't see the humor in our so-called differences, then you might not respond to what I'm doing.

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.

My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.

I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.

A lot of people can find something to laugh at in my humor, I guess.

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.

Love, as wonderful and horrible as it is, has at its center a kind of pitiful humor.