Garry Marshall Quotes

I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.

I like funny things, but I don't find myself particularly funny.

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.

We have a curious relationship with 'funny' in the U.K. We love to laugh, but we also think that making people laugh is just a little bit second-tier, especially in a literary context.

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There's entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.

I don't think I'm funny.

By the way, I'm funniest when I'm not being funny. I'm better to laugh at than with, pretty much.

I appreciate humor so much, but I'm actually not a funny girl.

I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'

I have a lot of faith in the power of joking to make something thoughtful.

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.

When I'm funny is when I'm angriest.

It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.

I like a man with a nice, self-deprecating sense of humour.

I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.

Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.

You shouldn't listen to us at all if you're looking for information. We don't take ourselves seriously on any level; we're just comedians.

I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

Comedy is just honesty. Whether things are going well or bad.

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