Bill Cosby Quotes

I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.

When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

People don't expect me to be as funny as I am.

To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.

I love to write jokes and that's all I think about.

Your funny gets developed pretty early on. Comedy requires that you understand as much as possible about the viewpoints of all people and everything that's going on around you. It genuinely requires a true point of view, a real sense of your own view of things in the world.

The number one job for me is to make people laugh. If I can also make people think, then that's a cool thing.

George Saunders is the funniest. He makes me laugh in the way I want to laugh - with so much empathy and deep understanding of people. He illuminates things and people I've never thought about - and I've dedicated my life to the study of people and their idiosyncrasies. He is light years ahead.

Comedy is the difference between how you see a person and how they see themselves.

If we do not know what humor is, that may be because we do not know what humankind is.

You can't deny the truth. And that's what makes smart comedy so good.

There is at least this to be said for mind, that it can dispel mind.

I think the word "intelligent" dictates a lot about someone's sense of humor, and the terms of reference in your life, the way you interpret something you read or a painting you look at or something.

Humor is basically a cognitive process. And it's a creative process not only on the part of the cartoonist but on the part of the viewer.

I was always funny, but I didn't know being funny was a gift.

I'm not stupid. I can tell what's what.

Austin, Texas, and Columbus, Ohio, are the two toughest communities in which you have to put together a winning football team. They are both big metropolitan areas without professional football and major league baseball to sidetrack them.

With girls, I don't think right. I had a date with one girl, she had mirrors all over her bedroom. She told me to come over and bring a bottle. I got Windex.

I'm not stupid. I know everybody thinks I am. I just don't like answering their questions.

A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.

I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.

I do love standup. I love comedians. They're my community. Also, because I know so many of them, I know the value of them. I know what they can do.