River Phoenix Quotes

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

You can find humor in most things, and even terrible things.

Most humor comes from truth. In the end, if I can laugh about it, who cares?

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

Funny is funny.

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

I no longer believe that just about everything is funny, if viewed from the proper angle.

Comedy is only as stupid as you are smart.

Funny is funny is funny.

If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny.

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

I have always found humor in places where humor wasn't necessarily intended.

Humor's an excellent way to make a point more palatable and/or relatable.

It's funny because it's funny.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

The whole point of comedy, what's fun, is taking the stupid thought I had and working it into something that makes a bunch of people laugh.

Humor is a way of saying we're all seeing the same ridiculous, absurd, infuriating things together.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

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

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.