"Humor's a weapon if you want to make it one."
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"Humor's a weapon if you want to make it one."
"I think that what comes through in Chicago humor is the affection. Even though you're poking fun at someone or something, there's still an affection for it."
"I don't think that because you die and move on to somewhere else that you lose your sense of humor."
"You know, Freud accepted his lot very stoically and very well and with a sense of humor. He aged and died gracefully, and there's a lot to be said for that."
"You're not going to see my sense of humor on the football field. That's not a place for me to joke around."
"Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor."
"If I had to describe my sense of humor, I would say it's contemporary wit, you know what I'm saying?"
"I've been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they're loath to do that because they think if it's a documentary it has to be deadly serious - it has to be like medicine that you're supposed to take. And I think it's what keeps the mass audience from going to documentaries."
"You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That's what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor."
"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."
"Poop humor is fun. If you do the toilet scenes well and commit to them, they can be really, really powerful."
"I've learned to start from a really sound argument, boil down the essence of what you're trying to say, then build your humor around that, rather than starting with, 'This sounds funny,' and going from there."
"If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor."
"If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor."
"If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor."
"A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?"
"Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot."
"Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun."
"Well, I mean, if a joke or humor is bawdy, it's got to be funny enough to warrant it. You can't just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that - it's got to be funny."
"Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?"
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