Saoirse Ronan Quotes

Yes... I miss that everyone in Ireland tries to knock some humour out of every situation. I don't think I appreciated that. It's unique to Ireland.

There's a real mischievousness about Irishmen, don't you find?

Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story - I don't think they exist.

With Irish drama, things are told with humor.

I always like to make some jokes, sometimes.

There's a certain kind of guy, a certain kind of humor, that goes with Irish cops and firemen.

Right. I’ve been missing Nutty McFang anyway.” “Stop making up names for him.” “What about Count Crackula?” “Just stop.

Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one.

I think I realized that Dave Barry was funnier than I'll ever be, and he made no attempt to make any actual points. He had a general libertarian point of view, but in general, he just liked to make jokes.

That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.

I really like being able to laugh at my own jokes.

I laugh almost everyday. I have a good sense of humor, so I'm always finding something funny.

Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.

Ready?" Despite the grim mood, I smiled and cracked my knuckles. "Ready to wrestle with my gorgeous boyfriend? Oh, I'd say I'm ready for that." Amusement softened his eyes. "I'll try to control where I put my hands, but in the heat of things, who knows what could happen?" I added. Patch grinned. "Sounds promising.

A man cannot make him laugh - but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.

According to liberals, you can't joke, there's no lighthearted banter. One cannot engage in any kind of traditional stereotypical humor because leftists cannot laugh at themselves. As I say, there's not much laughter in liberalism anyway. And they have all of these politically correct barriers up here.

Oliver laughed - actually laughed."I like this new Claire," he said. "You should work her this hard all the time, Myrnin. She's interesting when she's forthright." Claire, possessed by the spirit of Eve, shot him the finger. Which made him laugh again, shake his head, and walk up the steps.

If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.

A lot of the things I say I'm just trying to be funny... I don't really mean everything I say, because I'm not totally that airhead.

You have to have humor. If you don't have humor and you take yourself seriously, you're dead in the water. You have to be jostled. I love it. You've gotta have a laugh. It's better than working for a living.

She'd crack A joke sharp as a tin lid Hot from the teeth of the can-opener, And cackle her crack-corn laugh.

I keep on repeating something told to me by an American psychologist: "When you are making a joke about someone and you are the only one to laugh, it is not a joke. It is a joke only for yourself." If people are making a joke they have the right to laugh at me but I will ignore them. Ignoring doesn't mean that you don't understand. You understand it so much that you don't want to react.

Two Irishmen were passing a pub - well, it could happen.

I'm not elitist. I like to do crowd-pleasing stuff which is a bit smart, but is just about belly laughs.

The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.