"And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them."
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"And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them."
"If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something."
"You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other."
"I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes."
"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."
"I got my sense of humor from my grandmother. You know, my grandmother was very funny."
"If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race."
"I think, in our darkest moments, you have to find the humor, and you have to find the lightness."
"I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. You just have to get through it."
"Ingmar Bergman had a great sense of humor, and he had a very special, characteristic laugh that you always recognized - if he went to watch a theater show, 'Ah! He is here tonight."
"Sometimes you can take those dramatic roles and maybe interject a little humor into them, and I think the reverse also works."
"It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor."
"Take Shelter' is a tough movie because there's no humor in it, so there's really no way to judge how you're doing - whether people are still with you or not."
"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."
"I like telling stories with a sense of humor. But humor can also distance you from the subject you're writing about. I'm interested in using humor as a portal to something a bit more serious."
"You don't necessarily equate me with humor!"
"It's weird doing red carpets it's uncomfortable. But you can have a sense of humor about it."
"I think humor is such a personal thing, and you put a microphone in somebody's face, they're going to say something that offends somebody."
"If you don't have humor, you're not going to make it. You're going to be one of those people who walks around with your head about to explode."
"What you see on stage is pretty much the way I am... a dry sense of humor."
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