"Humor's a weapon if you want to make it one."
3
"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."
5
"I don't think that because you die and move on to somewhere else that you lose your sense of humor."
4
"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."
6
"You're not going to see my sense of humor on the football field. That's not a place for me to joke around."
6
"Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor."
6
"If I had to describe my sense of humor, I would say it's contemporary wit, you know what I'm saying?"
5
"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."
4
"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."
5
"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."
3
"Poop humor is fun. If you do the toilet scenes well and commit to them, they can be really, really powerful."
6
"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."
6
"If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor."
4
"If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor."
4
"If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor."
5
"A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?"
6
"Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot."
5
"Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun."
4
"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."
5
"Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?"
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