Jonathan Stroud Quotes

Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.

I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.

Whenever anyone asks me if I'm from a TV show, I say yes - no matter whether I've ever been on it. It just makes the conversation that much easier.

My comedy isn't going to solve problems; I'm not that deep.

I'm too busy thinking what I'm going to say next to remember what I've said, but my staff tells me I'm sometimes funny. Not always on purpose, though.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it's never at the expense of the other guy.

I can really stir up a conversation. Every time I go to a meeting or a casting, I try to make it as light and funny as I can. I'm always making really awkward jokes. You have to make life fun and not take it too seriously. I may look like I'm very serious and into my work, but if you knew me, I'm just a jokester.

I've often said the most difficult things I have to say to people through humour. I can very quickly put someone in their place with it. But we all walk away unscathed because there's been some funnies around it, and I'll usually make sure that it comes back at me.

I always enjoy conversation more if there is some substance to it - which is a just incredibly hilarious thing for me to say because for many, many years I was the guy whose only contribution to any conversation was, 'There was a funny 'Simpson's' joke about that.'

On Twitter, people just want to hear a joke. They don't really want to know about your life.

Conversation is the most human and humanizing thing that we do.

I'm joking all the time with my friends, even when we're talking about serious things.

Let's Wrestle would rather poke fun than point fingers, even if there's a problem that needs fixing.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

I'm always teasing and clowning around and laughing and in the locker room I tend to always have something to say.

I like people. I like to speak to people, engage with people.

One of the best things you can do to get on an engineer's good side is make him feel as much like a regular person as possible, without insulting his intelligence. Say things like, 'You're too cool to be an engineer,' or 'Nice kicks!' or 'You don't seem lonely at all.' Note: This only works on male engineers.

Just be funny. Funny always goes over well, so try to think of something funny to break the ice rather than being weird or using pickup lines.

In apartments and cottages, on the street and in the train... I listen... More and more, I turn into one large ear, always turning to another person.

Are you alone?" So that's what this call was about. For some reason, the question made my throat tighten. "No," I said, "Elvis is here. Would you like to talk to him?

I love meeting people who have absolutely no sense of irony. It's really fascinating to imagine what it would be like to go through life without understanding even the most basic of ironies.

I am in perfect health, and hear it said I look better than ever I did in my life, which is one of those lies one is always glad to hear.

My favorite part is being engaged with somebody's story and life, and getting a laugh with people I have a tremendous amount of respect for or not, and being challenged by the immediacy of conversation.