Sherman Alexie Quotes

Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer.

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

Things I say are sometimes silly.

I've always enjoyed watching characters that aren't aware that they're doing anything funny. And I think that inherently makes them funnier.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

I think I'm hysterical. I watch myself on tape and just roar - isn't that weird?

I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'

One of the funny things in life to me is a guy who takes himself very seriously.

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

Rob and I both have this strange sense of comedy which always involves us being the butt of our own jokes.

Most humor comes from truth. In the end, if I can laugh about it, who cares?

Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source of amusement to sensible people.

I love playing people who don't have a sense of humor for instance, there's nothing funnier to me than a person with no sense of humor.

Please, amigo. We need you, Kimosabe, O Mighty Powerful One. We need you more than the earth rises in the west." The sun rises in the east, dickhead." Only if you're standing on the earth. If you're on the moon, the earth rises in the west.

Do you have a favorite constalation, Percy?' I was still kind of wondering about the little green snakes he'd shoved into his jogging shorts, but i said. 'Uh, I like Hercules.' 'Why?' 'Well... because he had rotten luck. Even worse than mine. It makes me feel better." The jogger chuckled. 'Not because he was strong and famouse and all that?' 'No.

The universe is so amazing and so limitless, who wouldn't want to study the universe?

I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance.

If I had a sense of humor, I'd be laughing right now.

Fashion advice from the Tooth Fairy, that's great.

Men love a joke - on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself.

I kinda feel like an idiot sometimes. Although I am an idiot, so it kinda works out.

I don't take myself that seriously, I'm taking the piss out of myself. I can't really beat up guys, it's fun!