Holly Hunter Quotes

My success comes in making fun of whatever you're doing. That's my way.

I think that certain things are funny and certain things are okay to make fun of - including myself.

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.

Enough jokes on me. We need to do more jokes on all of them. I thought this was a press dinner where I get to make fun of the press.

I'm the easiest person to make fun of.

We have to be able to poke fun at ourselves.

At this point, we've ripped on everyone.

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

Jokes are grievances.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

You can make fun of everything.

Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.

I poke fun of everybody and everything. And who's easier to make fun of than your mother?

If I make fun of somebody at my show, believe me, it's something we can all laugh at.

I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to make fun of yourself and to do it in a way that sort of preserves your dignity but, at the same time, lets you play the theater of the absurd.

Satire can always be found everywhere. A people without love for satire is a dead people.

It's dangerous talking about comedy; it gets to be very tedious and presumptuous.

I feel like it's my job to potentially make fun of people publicly, but I do it in a fun manner.

I mean, no, I don't think anything is too far; you can make fun of anything.

The minute you're laughing, some people will say you're laughing at people.

Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.

You can laugh at somebody because they are innocent, and because they are naive or they are about to walk into a wall, but if somebody's giving you stuff, if somebody's talking, giving you their take on things, what makes you laugh, generally speaking, is going to be somebody who is telling it in an angry way.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.