Betty White Quotes

My brand of humor is trying to play the situation as real as possible because I'm not the type of guy who is a joke a minute.

I like books that are funny, but that aren't trying to be funny. I like situational humor.

I have a very dry sense of humor.

I feel that a lot of British comedy is often too bombastic, too obvious, dressing up and shouting and pulling funny faces.

I just like to make people laugh.

I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.

I just have a deadpan sense of humor, I guess.

Not all cartoon humor is just about having bugged-out eyes and tongues flying out of people's heads.

When you're doing comedy, you're not trying to be funny. I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously. I think when people are winking, it becomes slapstick, it becomes something else.

My humor is very dry. To me it doesn't make sense.

There is humor that's just whimsy, that we smile at, but the humor that we laugh at, someone has to be - someone's dignity has to be reduced.

I learned that you don't have to be all over the place, that you can be subtle and you can say what you say. The words that you put together can be just as hilarious as falling all over the place or doing something.

I wanted to see how funny I could be without making the choice that every 10 minutes something big and visual had to happen.

I think comedy is funnier when it's real.

The people in New York - their humor is on a level that goes, uh, very deep, you know?

I'm not the type of guy who's funny in the room. I'm the guy who's funny late at night on a computer, trying to construct jokes.

Sometimes I am so dry that people don't know I'm kidding and think I'm being serious. I enjoy this because their reactions are often funny.

My family is pretty funny. My mother is British, so she's got a very dry sense of humor. That's where I got that from.

I prefer situational or character-based humor to gross-out gags and comedic set pieces.

My mother was funnier than anybody I ever worked for. My father was as funny as this coat. Not a laugh a minute, my father.

To deliver something deadpan is very difficult; I don't think people know how hard those jokes are.

My sense of humor lies a little closer to the middle.

More than anything, I enjoy making people laugh.

I just have a crazy sense of humor.

We've always had a sense of humor - look at our name.