Elizabeth Henstridge Quotes

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.

I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous.

I think the humor, when applied in the right amount, only serves to intensify the other emotions in a given song; it highlights them, makes them stand out.

Humor without sadness underneath it feels cheap and aggressive.

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

I've always littered my songs with jokes. You might need to dig a little deeper to find the humor, but I would totally object to being some kind of distraught personality. I've never tried to attach myself to that.

If possible, be funny.

A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Humor is my default mode.

By the way, I'm funniest when I'm not being funny. I'm better to laugh at than with, pretty much.

Life likes jokes; life is constantly making jokes, even at the most inopportune moments.

There's always a source for humor.

You gotta keep the funny intact.

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better.

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

I like quips. I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don't really know where wittiness is constructive.

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

Humor's an excellent way to make a point more palatable and/or relatable.

I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.