Joss Whedon Quotes

No one thought that the Disney Superpower had the ability to laugh at itself, but 'Enchanted' proved everyone wrong.

David Letterman used to say, 'I wasn't the class clown, but I wrote for him,' and that's exactly it. You want to be known to be funny without having it pointed out.

No one will ever accuse James Carville of taking himself seriously.

What was funny if you were there is that we were all immensely sophisticated people who knew exactly what she was going to say and we're chatting away, nice to see you.

My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.

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

My work is still very much light-hearted, positive outlook, laugh at yourself. But it isn't going to be the laugh-a-minute kind of thing that my early work was.

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.

I was voted funniest person in my middle-school yearbook. So I guess I was funny in middle school?

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

My dad has a dry, deadpan sense of humor, and my mom has an unexpected, wacky take on things. They really encouraged laughing at ourselves and the weirdness of situations that come up growing up in politics.

Someone said to me at a party once, 'Oh, yeah, you're a comedian? Then how come you're not funny now?' And I just wanted to say, 'Well, I'm just going to take this conversation we're having and then repeat that to strangers, and then that's the joke. You're the joke later.'

I have a comic character - my sister said that I'm the victim of every joke I tell.

I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously; I find that a very tedious attitude.

Cary Grant is really the master of not taking himself so seriously.

If someone says, 'I love 'Jessica Jones!'' I just say, 'Thanks, I love you back!'

I'm all about being self-deprecating because I think it's hilarious.

I probably carry a fair amount of sarcasm in my daily life.

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 like Colbert because he's funny, and he's cool. He knows how to have fun and doesn't stick his nose up to Fox.

Rob and I both have this strange sense of comedy which always involves us being the butt of our own jokes.

I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

Sometimes I'll say, "When Sandy Bullock and I were doing Speed - the movie, not the drug." Just in case someone's listening.

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

I was the world's ugliest baby. When I was born, the doctor slapped everybody.