Robin Williams Quotes

Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a way to be likable yet to remain removed. When I speak up, it's not because I have any particular answers; rather, I have a desire to puncture the pretentiousness of those who seem so certain they do.

Sex is pretty funny, let's face it. And the more seriously we take ourselves, the funnier sex gets, I think.

If I had a sense of humor, I'd be laughing right now.

I'm a sucker for a good sense of humor.

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

The kind of über-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, "Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny."

Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

Life is funny, baby, and that's no joke

I like humor.

I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.

Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

Funny is funny is funny.

The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

You gotta keep the funny intact.

I've got a great sense of humor.

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

I think in life, the sense of humor and comedy always exists.

I do find things funny. When you see life through the eyes of someone with a good sense of humor, which my grandmother did, life is a human comedy.

Sometimes WRONG is worth the FUNNY!

But I really believe that if you have the ability, there is an obligation to make people laugh

I haven't laughed so much over anything since the hogs ate my kid brother.

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?

I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth.