Neil Patrick Harris Quotes

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

Sometimes a witticism has no truth behind it.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.

My mother-in-law fell down a wishing well. I was amazed; I never knew they worked.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.

The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.

I'm not funny ha-ha, but I look for real humour in just about everything I've ever played.

We've always had a philosophy that we would always go wherever the joke is.

I like really bad puns - proper, red-top, nasty puns - I find them funny.

I said to the waitress, "There's a fly swimming in my soup." She said: "You've got too much soup - he should only be able to paddle."

I'm not really deaf; I just faked it to win the Oscar KIDDING.

Ben Hur, who said to his sister Ben Him, We'd better swap names before they start calling me Ben Gay! Never got a dinner!

I don't really need to be dirty to be funny.

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

It's so interesting to watch Ben Stiller work because he just knows what's funny.

It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Satire also allows you to make fun of every different aspect. It allows you to make fun of both sides. It allows you to make fun of everything, really, so you can do it in a harmless way.

Almost anything can be funny if said the right way - but it has to be said the right way.

My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.

Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.