Robert Rinder Quotes

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

I like to see people laugh who are normally serious.

Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.

I don't think our records contain obvious humour. We're not cracking gags.

I never talk about my work as a joke.

I think I found it difficult though to keep a straight face when we were actually working and I wasn't supposed to be laughing.

I like squirm-laughing.

I don't like jokes.

Being funny is my biggest differentiator, and I think I'd be a fool not to use that, and there's nothing I enjoy personally more than making a human being laugh. But then, I also think I have a serious side to me.

I don't take myself or the species too seriously. You have to laugh at everything.

Any band that doesn't have a sense of humor has a little bit of a problem.

It can't be all serious at all times.

Humor is important. Nothing against bands that are always a downer, but the reality is - it just becomes theater.

My friends make me laugh: funny Instagram videos, but mostly people falling over. It's so bad, but it never gets old. I just love how people cover up their falls. The whole experience of 'Oh, I just fell, and I'm going to run out of the fall and pretend I did this on purpose.' I just like to see how people cover up their mishaps.

Humor is not a trick, not jokes. Humor is a presence in the world - like grace - and shines on everybody.

Basically I'm a very serious person, but I think the form it takes with me is comedy. I see the amusing side of all potentially pompous situations.

His eyes widened just a bit, his lips flexed. I realized he was trying not to laugh. I hate it when people find my threats amusing.

It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.

Sex is pretty funny, let's face it. And the more seriously we take ourselves, the funnier sex gets, I think.

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

When I was a kid, my goodness, corporate America was a bunch of stolid white guys in gray suits trying to be serious, and now it's stolid white guys in gray suits trying to be funny.

Don't quit your day jobs, boys, but always keep your sense of humor.

I don't see much point in doing things for a pure joke. Every now and then you need a joke, but not so much as the people who spend all their lives constructing joke palaces think you do.

Mia Maz glanced aside in concern at his muffled snort. "Are you all right?" "Yes. Sorry," he whispered. "I'm just having an attack of limericks." Her eyes widened, and she bit her lip; only her deepening dimple betrayed her. "Shhh," she said, with feeling.