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I love the Russians for their verve, their melancholia, their vivacity, their unpredictability, and their humour.
The Irish crowd and the humour, they really get it. Them riffing with 'The Room' makes the film watchable for me.
She had...the glimmerings of a sense of humour - which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things.
Paul Verhoeven is one of my favourite directors. I love his ability to mash extreme violence with humour and satire.
Australian people are dope. They're so fun. They want to just have a good time, and they have a great sense of humour.
I want to live in Britain with a sense of humour - where there are no groups whose life choices are 'above' criticism.
I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.
I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.
Todd Solondz is a film maker I've always loved because of how he balances darkness, humour and surrealism in his films.
Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have to have a sense of humour.
Top Gear' is all about the cars. We've got humour in it but the unique premise of the show is it all starts with the car.
I think the most attractive thing is a sense of humour. If someone can make you laugh, you've gotten a lot out of the way.
I don't know, maybe Australian humour isn't supposed to be funny. It's as dry as the Sahara, and I think people miss that.
Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.
The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.
I have this sense of humour which is about as sophisticated as a seven-year-old schoolboy. I get very overexcited and silly.
That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.
England and Denmark have a sense of irony and a darker sense of humour that you don't necessarily find in Germany and Sweden.
I've always had a sense of humour, and I still do, so I just want to go on performing as long as I can. It's as simple as that.
If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!
Some of the best comedy comes from squeezing humour from tragedy and struggle, but the main pursuit of comedy should be laughter.
My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.
Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.
There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.
The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.
Stand-up comics tend to make two assumptions: that Christians have no sense of humour and that all their audiences are unbelievers.
I'm a fun-loving guy. We are basically from Amritsar and ours is a chilled-out family. I think I have got my humour from my mother.
I think if there is a God, it's very important that he has a sense of humour - otherwise, you are in for a very miserable afterlife.
I've just watched the whole series of 'Flight of the Conchords'. I absolutely love it - the humour, the actors, everything about it.
Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from this writer would be akin to expecting sonnets from Benny Hill.
'Downton' is one of the best jobs in the world, and I'm looking forward to the next series for Maggie Smith's wicked sense of humour.
I prefer the finesse of French humour. English humour is more scathing, more cruel, as illustrated by Monty Python and Little Britain.
One of the real ways out of conflict is humour. It builds bridges; it's a weapon against rigid ideology, narrow thinking, intolerance.
When you see 'MHN,' you will see that the film is based on relationships which are serious, but there is a sense of humour to it, too.
That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.
I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.
I have inherited my father's sense of humour about myself. It's a lot more pleasant to make fun of yourself than when someone else does.
The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no sense of humour.
I'm a city boy, born and brought up in Mumbai. I talk fast, have a certain sense of humour, and have grown up watching Jackie Chan movies.
I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.
Comedy comes from childhood only. The humour genes you are born with remain with you. I was always making mischief and making people laugh.
I think the key attributes for a good speaker are someone that's articulate and someone that puts a fair amount of humour into what they do.
My father was a very funny man, and one of my strongest recollections is hearing him laugh. He didn't like people who had no sense of humour.
We were a very funny family. Humour was the tool with which my brother and I tried to get attention. We were always trying to be the funniest.
Jews, black people - any people who are hated or who have suffered, either as individuals or as a people - use humour. It is a survival skill.
My family is as complicated as the next family. We have our joys and our tragedies, and we bear both with a black humour that is in our genes.
No politician would ever comment on a cartoon unless it was to show what a great sense of humour they have, that they can laugh at themselves.