John Irving Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

The great thing about 'Weeds' is that everything we do is never quite serious enough to be taken seriously. It always has humor behind it, and it think it makes it definitely more fun for the audience.

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

I have a good sense of humor. I think everything we do should have whimsy in it.

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

I think there's always room for humor, especially when you're talking about really serious issues.

Most of my artwork is geared towards being humorous in some light.

I always gravitate toward the humor in something.

My sense of humor lies a little closer to the middle.

If you don't infuse humor into a subject matter, no matter how dark, the audience can't accept the message of a film. It closes them down. Humor can open them up.

We've always had a sense of humor - look at our name.

If you're able to put humor into something, just like it happens in life, you might get away with it.

I can't not put humor in a book.

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

Comedy should be easy, not laboured.

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.

There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.