James Hillman Quotes

I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.

Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.

Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.

I always gravitate toward the humor in something.

There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.

What also helps our show is that we never take ourselves seriously.

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

You have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.

I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.

To me, comedy is a game.

I love comedy because I can laugh at myself. I don't take myself too seriously.

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

Humor's a weapon if you want to make it one.

If possible, be funny.

I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.

I don't think that there's necessarily a side to drama that has to be completely bleak. You have to have a flicker of humor 'cause everyone has a flicker of humor, something they find funny in life.

Comedy is the only hope for humanity.

I'm able to see humor in a lot of things.

They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up.

Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I am here to have fun here with my work.

There's humor in everything. There's gotta be humor in everything.

I like to see people laugh who are normally serious.

Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.

Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.