Carole Lombard Quotes

What is a sense of humor? Surely not the ability to understand a joke. It comes rather from a residing feeling of one's own absurdity. It is the ability to understand a joke, and that the joke is on oneself.

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

God probably thinks it’s worth giving a sense of humor only to those of us who have to laugh at all the rubbish bits that are wrong with us.

Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.

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

If you can't laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century.

Laughter is a sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside.

This is getting funny, but there ain't nobody laughing.

Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself.

I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.

I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it was so absurd that you can't help laughing. And the person that was concerned about that story was laughing too.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

I love comedy because I can laugh at myself. I don't take myself too seriously.

I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.

Laughter is the best way to get over something or get closer to something. It's one of the things I respect most about Amy Schumer. She's found a way to get us closer to ourselves and see the ugly side of humanity, but not in a way that's pointing a finger or that's angry. She does it in a way that makes us see the absurdity and laugh at it.

I think it's important to have a sense of humor. You have to be able to laugh at yourself.

I don't take myself or the species too seriously. You have to laugh at everything.

Reading Alan Zweibel makes me laugh out loud. And yet it is not a particularly funny name.

I realized, dumb people don't know they're dumb. When people try to make me laugh and they try to be funny, that's when they lose me. I find a lot of comedy in honesty.

The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in this world. In other words, I can only recommend perspective and distance.

Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!

You can't make Christ funny. He's self-aware, he's too flexible within the situation. It's rigidity, it's when the ego takes over and the behavior becomes inappropriate that it becomes funny.