David Niven Quotes

The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping and showing off his shortcomings.

God probably thinks it’s worth giving a sense of humor only to those of us who have to laugh at all the rubbish bits that are wrong with us.

If you can really laugh at yourself loud and hard every time you fall, people will think you're drunk.

I have this recurring nightmare where I'm giving a speech in front of my old high school classmates, and they start laughing at me, and I look down and realize I'm naked. And a shark.

I've been naked in a lot of my movies. There's something inherently funny about the naked male body, particularly mine.

15 people in a room looking at you with no clothes on - that's a little weird.

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

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?

If you can't laugh at yourself, you're cooked!

It's not terribly dignified to have anyone seeing one laugh at one's own material.

Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.

People seem to really enjoy laughing at me.

The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.

There is humor that's just whimsy, that we smile at, but the humor that we laugh at, someone has to be - someone's dignity has to be reduced.

In the next minute, I will be entirely naked. In the minute after that, fully dressed.

Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.

I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.

If somebody on this team actually gets to first base, I'll stand there naked.

I wouldn't inflict my naked body on any paying audience.

I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.

I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.

Apparently I'm the most naked that anyone's been on TNT. My poor mother. I'm ready to run away.

I do sarcasm really poorly.

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

I have this weird obsession with kids and old people falling. Like, funny falls. It is awful, but it's the thing that makes me laugh the most.