I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.

Poop humor is fun. If you do the toilet scenes well and commit to them, they can be really, really powerful.

Never make a joke or try for humor at someone else's expense. In a high-stakes environment, everyone needs to feel safe.

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.

People probably perceive me as a bit boring because I am a little slow in the humor department, but it's just hard for me to get jokes when they're told in English. I am always the last one to get it.

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

Things are more complex today, and I think humor has changed a a great deal. People are more sensitive today.

What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!

Working on newspapers, you're writing to a certain length, often very brief pieces; you tend to look for easy forms of humor - women can't drive, things like that. That's about the level of a lot of newspaper humor. It becomes a form of laziness.

It's hard to force creativity and humor.

I think I was the only person in my experimental film class doing comedy. But my sense of humor and a lot of comedy that I love is quite surreal and strange, you know? You could argue that 'Monty Python' is experimental film. It just happens to be really funny.

For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.

Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of humor.

I have five boys in the family, and it's constant competition, sport, humor, and practical jokes.

It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.

I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant.

Humor is to get us over terrible things.

I'm just very amused by five-year-old humor.

Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.

If you look at the game and everything, it's not quite like looking at an animated film, because that's total character. This, this is really movement, but it's got funny little things if you look for the humor. They're actually getting to the character.

I think there's something about the Irish experience - that we had to have a sense of humor or die.

That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor.

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.

I got my sense of humor from my grandmother. You know, my grandmother was very funny.

I come from a much freer kind of performance thing, where I rely on my own improv and my own sense of humor.

A lot of stars don't have a sense of humor.

I guess, for me, I've always thought that there was humor everywhere. And as a kid, I just, you know, I grew up an only child, and I - sort of nothing made me happier than to make my parents laugh. I remember I had costumes and things laying around the house that I was, you know, anything that I could do to make my parents laugh.

If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.

People with no humor, they're outta my life.

Why anybody gets my sense of humor I never know, but I do know that when they do, I keep them as close as I possibly can.

I never write anything without humor, just because I like humor, but at the same time, it is a way for anything fantastical to become relatable.

Every black film feels like it's Tyler Perry, and that just needs to stop. But people seem to slowly be looking for what else is out there - 'Is there something else besides this type of humor?' 'I'm tired of seeing men in dresses.'

Sometimes I find I'm wearing a divided, split brain in terms of drama and humor.

It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.

Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.

Edward Norton and I have known each other awhile. I just think he's the real deal, supremely talented and smart. He's got a great sense of humor.

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

I have my outlet for my humor through my characters, and I also have the intimacy of rapport with my fans that allows me to explain my philosophy and spirituality.

I don't try to sanction other people's joy in monsters. I mean, I think the fact is, humor, fantasy - you know, like fear, desire or laughter - create genres of their own: comedy, melodrama, or erotic films or horror films... The boundaries cannot be defined. It's to each his own.

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.

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.

I defuse everything I can with it. Humor is such a great shield.

I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.

I want to have fun. Life ain't no dress rehearsal. I want to have fun. I'm a comedian; I ain't no politician. So everything I do is with humor, with love.

I have a very silly sense of humor. I've never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe.

Twitter is the place where I try to be more funny. And then I use Instagram just as my diary. I pull some jokes on there, but I think people have a better sense of humor on Twitter.

I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.

When I've had to edit my albums, I'll listen to it one time through, and I'll make edits. I want to remember to set up a camera to record myself listening to my set, because I don't even slightly crack a smile, I am just listening for technical details, and I look like somebody that has absolutely no sense of humor. I look insane.