Ingmar Bergman Quotes

I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.

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

I don't think I'm funny.

I've heard too many times where people say that I'm this ultra-serious guy. In truth, I've got an extremely absurd sense of humor. I thrive on the absurd - I love it.

What you see on stage is pretty much the way I am... a dry sense of humor.

They don't call him 'No Drama Obama' for nothing. He's even worse than we thought because he has committed the ultimate American crime, worse than anything he has been accused of so far: He has no sense of humor.

Some people don't have a sense of humor.

No good at life, but very funny sometimes with the commentary.

The things that make me laugh are considered smart or whatever, I guess. But stuff that's self-consciously intelligent or self-consciously hip or cool, that doesn't do it for me either. You just try to be funny.

For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.

My capacity for humour may have come largely from my father - he liked to entertain people, make people laugh.

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

Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

People don't expect me to be as funny as I am.

I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor.

My instincts are not comedic.

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.

I can't not write funny. It's literally the only way I know how to do it.

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

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.

I'm just not very funny.

You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.

When I'm playing comedy, I never do 'jokes.' Sometimes I'll deliver a line in a way I think is more likely to get a laugh, but all the best comedy is played straight. What's funny is the way it hits the world around it or the way it hits the other characters.

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.