David Harbour Quotes

You have to find a balance with food in your life - you can't take out food. It can be absolutely terrifying.

Self-delusion is one of the funniest things there is.

Fear is what makes comedy funny.

If I'm committed to something really stupid, then I'm in a comedy.

The funniest thing about some people is that they have no sense of humor.

It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously.

I proved to you that psychiatry is an exact science!" "An exact science?!" "Yes, you owe me exactly one hundred and forty-three dollars!

A lot of the stuff Kafka said he thought was hilariously funny.

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

What is a sense of humor? Surely not the ability to understand a joke. It comes rather from a residing feeling of one's own absurdity. It is the ability to understand a joke, and that the joke is on oneself.

Some people are so sensitive that they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks them.

Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

What is so funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is the same and healthy response to the innocent foibles of men; and even to some which are not innocent.

The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.

I always thought it would be very funny if I was a blind film director.

Anything that is not funny at a certain point will be funny.

Suddenly, this romantic agony was enriched by a less romantic one: I had to go to the bathroom. Needless to say, I couldn't let her know about this urge, for great lovers never did such things. The answer to "Romeo Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo?" was not "In the men's room, Julie.

My wife is on a new diet. Coconuts and bananas. She hasn't lost weight, but can she climb a tree.

Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.

If I had a sense of humor, I'd be laughing right now.

I think laughter comes because things are hardly working.

Personally, I think Jim Henson said it best when he said "Anybody got an aspirin? I think I've got a cold."

I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers.

The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.