Humour Quotes - Page 10

I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining characteristic. I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well.
Eva Mendes / Actress
Ambition
Frustrating
Humour
Intellect
Love Sexy Me
Characteristic
Define
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I use humour a lot because humour is a great equaliser. Everyone laughs at the same things if you set them up properly, and that makes everybody equal. At the end of the day, I see my job as being there to entertain as well as inform and provoke.
Gurinder Chadha / Film Director
Being There
Equal
Humour
Everybody
Great End Of The Day Day
Job
Same
Set
End Of The Day
Entertain
Inform
Laughs
Makes
Well
Properly
Provoke
Same Things
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Australians have a fantastic sense of humour and incredible taste. I was there for 'Bend It Like Beckham,' and I had a great time. Aussies loved it, and I think 'Bride & Prejudice' is going to do well, too, because it's all about having a good time.
Gurinder Chadha / Film Director
Beckham
Having A Good Time
Humour
Prejudice
Taste
Time Good Great
Australians
Bend
Great Time
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Everything serious in the world is well approached by humour. It's a powerful and often quite subversive tool. I suppose there is an argument that could be made against me for being frivolous, but I do think a laugh is a very generous thing to give.
Beeban Kidron / Film Director
Frivolous
Generous
Humour
Subversive
Suppose
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What I see as specially English is the charm - everyone is so polite. Being restrained is part of the charm. And I love the sense of humour - it takes me back to Australia. The English are great at making fun of themselves. They're so self-effacing.
Danielle De Niese /
Charm
Humour
Love Great Me
Restrained
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One evening, Mike Myers and Steven Spielberg were discussing 'Goldmember,' and I just happened to joke, 'If you need a Japanese character, let me know!' The next day, they called me for audition! I find it's always helpful to maintain a sense of humour.
Nobu Matsuhisa / Chef
Discussing
Evening
Humour
Mike
Audition
Character Always Me
Japanese
Maintain
Spielberg
Steven
Steven Spielberg
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Both my mother's younger sisters, Padmini and Tejaswini, are actresses. I am extremely close to Teju mausi, as I am quite similar to her. We both are adventurous, spontaneous, childish, impulsive, and a bit silly and have our own strange sense of humour.
Shraddha Kapoor / Film Actress
Adventurous
Humour
Impulsive
Silly
Spontaneous
Sisters
Childish
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When I realised I had a facility for humour, I latched on to it, and it gave me confidence and I built my personality around it. So I subconsciously made myself become the funny one so that would be my label rather than the ginger one or the red-faced one.
Catherine Tate / Comedienne
Confidence
Facility
Ginger
Humour
Personality
Realised
Red
Would Be
Label
Subconsciously
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I went to a British Council event a while back and there were lots of German professors of literature. About half of them were convinced I had a German sense of humour and the other half were sure it was British. They are probably still arguing about it now.
Tibor Fischer / Novelist
Arguing
Council
Events
Half
Humour
Literature
Professors
German
Event
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I don't think anything's cruel - if you're so sensitive these days that you see cruelty everywhere, unfortunately every time a comedian comes on television, you're going to accuse him of cruelty, because that's the kind of humour that the English people enjoy.
Roy Hodgson / Soccer Player
Comedian
Humour
Sensitive
Accuse
Time People Anything
Cruel
English People
Time People Television
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I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.
Samuel L. Jackson / Film Actor
Funny
Audience
Certain
Character
Cinema
Deeper
Guy
Humour
Particular
Play
Thinking
Deeper Level
Engage
Leave
Infuse
Particular Way
Tend
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If you're an athlete and you completely focus on the body, you're missing other components. Similarly, if you're trying to broaden your mind but not also being attentive to your sense of humour and your spirit, then you're not going to grow and develop so fast.
Aimee Mullins / Athlete
Athlete
Components
Humour
Missing
Attentive
Broaden
Develop
Fast
Similarly
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I want to give haute couture a kind of wink, a sense of humour - to introduce the whole sense of freedom one sees in the street into high fashion; to give couture the same provocative and arrogant look as punk - but, of course, with luxury and dignity and style.
Yves Saint Laurent / Fashion Designer
Arrogant
Couture
Dignity
Humour
Luxury
Provocative
Punk
Introduce
Sees
Wink
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I've often said the most difficult things I have to say to people through humour. I can very quickly put someone in their place with it. But we all walk away unscathed because there's been some funnies around it, and I'll usually make sure that it comes back at me.
Dawn French / Actress
Difficult Things
Humour
People
Said
Walk Me People
Walk Me Difficult
Quickly
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It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy.
Diana Wynne Jones / Writer
Fantasy
Humour
Sane
Standing
Always Me Way
Nearly
Emotionally
Me Way Always
Intellectually
Mini
Noticed
Situations
Tells
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I've never sat down with the intent of trying to shock or anything like that; it just so happens that the sense of humour I enjoyed watching as a kid is the type of humour I try to emulate as an adult. It's not a decision. It might sound a bit wanky, but it's the truth.
Jim Jefferies / Stand-Up Comedian
Emulate
Humour
Sat
Shock
Intent
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It always interested me that 'Goodness Gracious Me' and 'The Kumars,' when shown around the world, were referred to as British comedy. It was only here that they were referred to as Asian comedy, even though I always felt it was very British in its humour and structure.
Sanjeev Bhaskar / Comedian
Asian
Comedy
Goodness
Gracious
Humour
Structure
World
Always World Me
Referred
Shown
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Once in a while, I still witness occasionally sexist behavior and comments from men (which experience has taught me you should always deflect with humour rather than anger). Old habits die hard, after all, and it's unrealistic to expect dinosaurs to fall silent overnight.
Maelle Gavet /
Anger
Behavior
Humour
Sexist
Silent
Witness
Comments
Deflect
Die Hard
Habits
Occasionally
Overnight
Unrealistic
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People are apprehensive about finding 'The Leftovers' funny because it's such a dark circumstance, but I think, really, what the show is about is examining how different people deal with loss. There are elements of humour and levity and irony in that... just like in real life.
Emily Meade /
Elements
Examining
Humour
Irony
Leftovers
Levity
Loss
Real Life
Life Funny People
Apprehensive
Circumstance
Different People
Finding
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I really do prioritise humour in people. It's a sign of intelligence. One of the most important things I heard that moulded me was Derek and Clive. That sense of release when I heard them for the first time, crying and laughing, was akin to seeing Sonic Youth for the first time.
Roisin Murphy / Singer-Songwriter
Humour
Important Things
Release
Sonic Youth
Crying
Sonic
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I've said before I think the best thing about social media is that it brings people together and the worst thing about social media is that it brings people together. You're assuming that the people following you know what type of person you are and what type of humour you have.
Limmy /
Assuming
Humour
Worst Thing
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I think you need humour and a sense of fun, which is what I try to bring to my books to leaven the danger and action. The ones that really transcend the genre always have a great laugh in them, such as 'Fright Night,' 'Lost Boys,' 'American Werewolf in London' - just to name a few.
Sherrilyn Kenyon / Writer
Book
Danger
Fright
Fun
Genre
Humour
London
Thinking
Werewolf
Great Night Fun
Laugh
Transcend
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The English have a special sense of humour. This I immediately experienced in the dressing room. As I walked with two plates while eating, suddenly a team-mate asked me, 'Basti, what time is it?' hoping I would automatically turn my hand to look at my watch. That's quite entertaining.
Bastian Schweinsteiger / Soccer Player
Entertaining
Humour
Plates
Time Me Look
Automatically
Dressing
Dressing Room
Experienced
Time Look Me
Hoping
Immediately
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When things are difficult, awful, stressful, the thing that always gets you through is a sense of humour. I don't mean - well, maybe I do - laugh at the hangman as he puts the noose around your neck. But an eye, an ear, for the ridiculous, the absurd in life, can get you through a lot.
Paul Merton / Writer
Absurd
Hangman
Humour
Stressful
Life Always Your
Neck
Ear
Puts
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Designers have a reputation for setting the tone for what people - and especially women - are supposed to wear. How long their skirts should be, things like that. I have a different philosophy: put something out there with humour; let people see that and come around to it on their own.
Jeremy Scott / Fashion Designer
Humour
Reputation
Setting
Skirts
Tone
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The British have turned their sense of humour into a national virtue. It is odd, because through much of history, humour has been considered cheap, and laughter something for the lower orders. But British aristocrats didn't care a damn about what people thought of them, so they made humour acceptable.
Theodore Zeldin /
Acceptable
Damn
Humour
Laughter
Odd
Order
People
Virtue
Considered
Aristocrat
Cheap
Lower
Orders
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I get very confused about being called a comedian, because when you say 'I'm a comedian,' people expect you to crack a joke. Maybe I use laughter and humour to make people think. I don't know what you call that - a humourist? A satirist? A pessimistic comedian? I don't know. Satirists can be very dark.
Bassem Youssef / Satirist
Comedian
Confused
Humour
Laughter
Pessimistic
Satirist
Crack
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One of my great regrets, and I don't have many, is that I spent too long putting people's status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone's name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
Bill Nighy / Actor
Kindness
Compassion
Humour
Important
Late
Letters
Long
Regret
Relevant
Reputation
Stuff
Too Late
After
Ahead
Someone
Name
Too
Far
Guarantee
Learned
List
Long List
No Guarantee
Regrets
Putting
Spent
Status
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The photograph of the Queen sitting stiffly across the table from Glasgow resident Susan McCarron is so natural and expressive that it looks utterly fake. It looks like an artist's portrait, complete with symbolism, humour and poignancy. No wonder the palace and the press have interpreted it in such different ways.
Amanda Foreman /
Different Ways
Expressive
Fake
Glasgow
Humour
Photograph
Poignancy
Symbolism
Queen
Interpreted
No Wonder
Palace
Portrait
Resident
Susan
Utterly
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In the '80s, when I was watching Bond films in the cinemas, Roger Moore was the man. I'll always have a soft spot for him. His Bond films were light-hearted and silly as well as action-packed. For me, this spoke volumes. It meant that, someday, maybe someone like me with a whacky sense of humour could be James Bond.
Rhys Darby / Actor
Humour
Light Hearted
Roger
Silly
Always Man Me
Bond
Man Always Me
Cinemas
Films
Spot
James
James Bond
Maybe
Moore
Soft
Soft Spot
Spoke
Volumes
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Laughter is an important part of a good relationship. It's an immense achievement when you can move from your thinking that your partner is merely an idiot to thinking that they are that wonderfully complex thing called a loveable idiot. And often that means having a little bit of a sense of humour about their flaws.
Alain De Botton / Writer
Relationship
Achievement
Flaws
Good Relationship
Humour
Idiot
Immense
Important
Laughter
Little Bit
Thinking
Little
Thing
Bit
Part
Complex
Often
Means
Having
Important Part
Merely
Move
Partner
Sense
Wonderfully
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The first piece of 'long' fiction I wrote was a novella parody of Stephen King's 'Christine.' I was in high school, and my version was about a kid with a possessed locker instead of a possessed car. It was also my first attempt at humour, which fell completely flat because no one who read it realized it was a parody!
Kelley Armstrong / Writer
Christine
Humour
Parody
Possessed
Attempt
Version
Locker
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Halfway through primary school, I realised that I was not as physically strong or fearless as many kids. So, in situations of conflict, I quickly learned that it worked better for me to get out of situations or maybe kind of, you know, prevail in a conflict situation by using humour than by trying to punch somebody out.
Morris Gleitzman / Author
Conflict
Halfway
Humour
Primary School
Realised
Prevail
Punch
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I think my dad has a similar black sense of humour to mine, so perhaps it's just an inherited thing. I've got two little boys now, and I can see it with them as well. I don't know if you learn it off your parents - but my dad used to take me to see certain plays when I was quite young, so maybe that had an effect as well.
Julia Davis /
Humour
Inherited
Similar
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But I still read Shaw on a regular basis. What I love is the nakedness of the polemic and the irresistible good humour. For me, 'Major Barbara' is the greatest of all the plays in that it starts from the rational and proceeds to the ecstatic in a spectacular way, and leaves you very confused if you cling to Euclidean logic.
Tony Kushner / Playwright
Barbara
Confused
Ecstatic
Humour
Irresistible
Logic
Love Is
Play
Rational
Spectacular
Love Good Me
Love Good Love Is
Basis
Cling
Major
Leaves
Plays
Polemic
Proceeds
Regular Basis
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My humour comes from acknowledging different communities. That's what my fans are responding to - they know that I 'get it.' I understand them. I take the time to understand them. I get more complaints from people when I don't talk about them. I've had guys come up to me after a show and go, 'You didn't talk about Latvians!'
Russell Peters / Comedian
Community
Complaints
Guy
Humour
People
Responding
Time Me People
Acknowledging
Communities
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My mum, Helen, was hilarious. She had a tremendous sense of humour and was a great singer and tap dancer. For many years, she was the voice of Minnie Mouse in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. She would be in the float as it came along, singing whatever the Minnie Mouse song of the day was. She was a really big spirit in my life.
Billy Crystal / Actor
Hilarious
Thanksgiving
Dancer
Humour
Mum
Singing
Life Great Day
Tremendous
Tap
Float
Singer
Mouse
Parade
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When I look in the mirror, I am slightly reminded of self-portraits by Durer and by Rembrandt, because they both show a degree of introspection. I see some element of disappointment; I see a sense of humour, but also something that is faintly ridiculous; and I see somebody who is frightened of being found out and thought lightweight.
Robert Winston / Professor
Disappointment
Frightened
Humour
Introspection
Mirrors
Ridiculous
Self
Degree
Mirror Look I Am
Element
Lightweight
Mirror
Rembrandt
Slightly
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I've never met a human being like Rajinikanth sir. Every time he walks in, there is this aura around him. He is very humble, gentle and sweet to spot boys, light men and gives the same amount of respect to everyone. What I enjoy about him is his sense of humour. He is highly knowledgeable and can be mostly seen with a book in his hand.
Shriya Saran /
Gentle
Humble
Humour
Walks
Aura
Spot
Sir
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As a kid, I was school swot, but I used to hang around the billiard halls, learning that Geordie sense of humour, mixing with low-lifes. They were the sort who'd pick your pocket and then say 'Here you are lad, here's tuppence, get yourself some chips'. I was a good rugby player, a good runner, so I fitted in at Cambridge quite easily.
Sid Waddell / Sports Commentator
Cambridge
Chips
Halls
Humour
Lad
Mixing
Rugby
Easily
Fitted
Hang
Pick
Pocket
Runner
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If you have a sense of irony or humour, you're usually cut down, as you're usually distorted or misinterpreted. So it does lead to us being slightly more dour and staid and predictable than would otherwise be the case, which I personally find quite frustrating - because if you don't laugh occasionally in my job, you cry most of the time.
David Blunkett / British Politician
Cry
Frustrating
Humour
Irony
Misinterpreted
Predictable
Distorted
Occasionally
Slightly
Staid
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Our parents, loved ones, and friends are getting cancer. So we need to know how to care for them, support them, and understand what the hell is going on. I don't think it's that hard to reach them: you have to go where they are - online. You have to speak their language - humour, wit, and edge. And you have to be honest, authentic and bold.
Yael Cohen /
Humour
Loved Ones
Wit
Authentic
Bold
Edge
Hell Is
To Be Honest
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You hear people talking about a Scottish sense of humour, or a Glaswegian sense of humour, all sorts of countries and cities think that they've got this thing that they're funny. I read about the Liverpudlian sense of humour and I was like, 'Aye? What's that then?' You get that and you especially hear about a dark Glaswegian sense of humour.
Limmy /
Humour
Scottish
Hear People
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Garrison Keillor's 'Lake Wobegon' books create a world I can immerse myself in over and over. I love the deadpan humour, the warmth, and the wonderful characters in The Sidetrack Tap. I discovered them when I was about 30, starting with 'Leaving Home' and 'We Are Still Married,' and fell in love with the place and those flat Midwestern vowels.
Fiona Barton /
Humour
Leaving
Leaving Home
Vowels
Warmth
Love Home Myself
Tap
Flat
Immerse
Lake
Midwestern
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