Jeff Lindsay 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 think, for me, humour needs to be used like a strong spice - sparingly.

When people write comedy from neutrality, it just gets kind of silly.

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.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

I laughed, even if I was the butt of the joke.

I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

I always gravitate toward the humor in something.

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

Humor without sadness underneath it feels cheap and aggressive.

I don't really like something serious depicted in a serious way; that's not my style.

Humor comes from self-confidence.

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

I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.

The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.

I'm really sarcastic. Not Morgan Webb sarcastic. She's dry, 100%. I'm different from her.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.

I have a really dark, rich, thick sense of humor.

I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.

But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.