Oscar Nunez Quotes

You can find humor in most things, and even terrible things.

I personally have dealt with any adversity in my life with humor. That's why I told America to 'Read my hips!' on 'Dancing With the Stars' or was happy to play along with Jason Alexander and Jerry Seinfeld in the great restaurant scene on 'Seinfeld.'

Looking back, I remember my family laughing a lot. We were never the kind of people that dwelled on hard times. My family laughs when things are tough. Growing up like that, I got used to making jokes about things that were difficult. So when I started doing stand-up, that's what I went towards.

I think it's important to find humor anywhere you can. In real life, with the darkest, scariest, most intense moments, if you can find something funny, that's good.

If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die.

A lot of time, people enter the most depressing situations, and they are the funniest people on Earth, because they have to be. It's a coping mechanism.

Cancer is probably the most unfunny thing in the world, but I'm a comedian, and even cancer couldn't stop me from seeing the humor in what I went through.

The way I survived growing up in Jersey City was by being funny. It wasn't by being tough. Nobody thought of me as a tough kid, except for the kids I beat up.

Now, where does my comedy come from, like, as a human being? Yeah, when I was a kid I was dyslexic and had to go to special-ed every day and felt stupid about that and got very witty to defend myself.

Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I'm being funny, but I'm reminding you of other things. Life is tough, darling. Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything; otherwise, we're going down the tube.

I was 10th of 11 kids in an alcoholic, abusive, poor family. We all want things that we can't have. And I found comedy.

Certainly, anyone whom I've witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it.

I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them.

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

I was named Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter to heal and to get me through things.

The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We've all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we've all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that's a gift - to you and your audience.

Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

Humor is to get us over terrible things.

Humor is the most important thing in life. It trumps everything else, and it's the only thing that helps me deal with everything else.

Growing up in Jersey makes you a little bit ballsier, a little more outspoken.

I always try to find something funny in any situation.

There isn't a lot I can do on this planet, but I can be funny.

My sense of humor has saved me more than a couple of times in my life.

Humor and comedy have always been the best way to deal with real life issues and just reality.

Humor was how I got through everything in my life. I used to find a funny way to get out of situations. That's who I was. That's who I am!