Rodney Dangerfield Quotes

You know, I think it's one of those cases where the situation really does dictate your level of ridicule.

True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.

When I go to a restaurant I always ask the manager, "Give me a table near a waiter."

If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?

I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.

I no longer believe that just about everything is funny, if viewed from the proper angle.

You know what's funny to me? Attitude.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?'

Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.

Tolerance is you saying something crazy and me smiling and saying, 'That's nice.'

Comics write to their point of view. If you're an exceedingly irreverent comedian, you've got to see where that point of view fits or produces the most funny.

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

I did as well as might be expected—seated as I was between Jesus Christ and Napoleon.

There is nothing that is so serious that you can't also see its comic side. Comedy is a way of talking about the most serious things.

Comedy has no rules, per se.

Good late-night humor can work at any time of the day.

We've always had a philosophy that we would always go wherever the joke is.

A lot of the times, anything that somebody tries to say negative is actually kind of funny.

The one thing that makes me laugh about the phrase 'the worst week of my life' is that nobody actually uses that phrase when something really bad happens.

I've never been much drawn towards satire of any kind.

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

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

I'm healthy - for a gymnast.

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