W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

I can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I'm in the company of good friends, but I'm not a jokesmith. I tend to be quite serious.

I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.

Sometimes I am so dry that people don't know I'm kidding and think I'm being serious. I enjoy this because their reactions are often funny.

People who take themselves too seriously, who can't see anything else, are usually funny.

David Ayer is known for being a very serious filmmaker, but he has a very great sense of humor.

I do not have a sense of humor of any recognizable sort.

I like telling stories with a sense of humor. But humor can also distance you from the subject you're writing about. I'm interested in using humor as a portal to something a bit more serious.

You definitely have to have a sense of humor. It's not always serious when it comes to basketball.

Being funny is my biggest differentiator, and I think I'd be a fool not to use that, and there's nothing I enjoy personally more than making a human being laugh. But then, I also think I have a serious side to me.

Any band that doesn't have a sense of humor has a little bit of a problem.

I like being a funny lady. I think theres nothing sexier than a funny lady.

Funny is funny. You can be fooled by the eye, but if your performance is funny to the ear, it will be funny. I think it's that if you don't have the visual, you have to infuse the full personality into the voice.

I think Ive got a pretty good sense of humor.

You can't be trying to be funny. As an adult actor, sometimes I'll muddle it up by over-thinking things.

I don't feel any pressure to be funny at all. I'm funny because I want to be funny. I could sit here and be serious for an hour and you would go away and make me much funnier than I am.

I think I'm the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people.

Not a time with him passed that I didn't say, "You should've been a comedian." [Vincent Price] was hilarious. He was just such a quick, funny wit. I don't think most people would think that about him, and it was really surprising to me. But man, the guy had a brilliant wit.

Humor could not flourish in a wholly serious and rational atmosphere.

A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and be spent in that way. And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.

I feel like humor is a part of life. I don't think it comes through as much in the novels as it does in my head.

I think I have a good sense of humor, but I'm not, like, a joke-teller. I get the jokes, which is sometimes half the battle. Believe me, I have no idea why anyone hires me.

True wit never made us laugh.

You don't have to think really hard to get the joke. I think humor in general appeals to all people.

Being funny is a gift, and, when done well, is an art form.

We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.