David Crosby Quotes

Actually being funny is mostly telling the truth about things.

My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.

A lot of stars don't have a sense of humor.

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.

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

People are always asking me how much I'm worth. Well, all I can say is, I've got enough money to last me the rest of my life. As long as I die in the next 20 minutes.

My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.

Self-delusion is one of the funniest things there is.

I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.

Neil Hamburger writes such cutting jokes.

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I'm a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I want to deny you the relief of the punchline.

I absolutely don't have $20 billion. But I'd love to, right?

We have a curious relationship with 'funny' in the U.K. We love to laugh, but we also think that making people laugh is just a little bit second-tier, especially in a literary context.

A lot of people don't think of my work as being all that funny, but I think it's hilarious!

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

There are two reasons why I'm in show business, and I'm standing on both of them.

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

Cool is the enemy of funny. You can't be cool and be funny at the same time. Only Eddie Murphy could do that.

If you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn't get that idea, as if to acknowledge it would trivialize the story or trivialize human nature, when in fact human nature is reduced and falsified if the comic aspects are not included.

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.

The show is 'Fix My Life!' Get it? Life. I do not fix people.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.