Humor Control Quotes

Transforming a line like that makes it into a belly laugh instead of a laugh against us.

I'm funny when I want to be. And I'm even funny when I don't want to be.

I'm very careful not to tell a joke just to get a reaction.

As professionals, we just try to keep the jokes to a minimum, when we're in a certain situation. When we're not doing that, we're joking.

I'd love to do comedy. I'd probably have to get my laughing fits in check, because generally if I've done comedy, I'm usually the straight character that plays against the very obviously funny character, so that's really hard when the person is really hilarious.

All these jokes have been pre-approved as funny by me.

I don't have this weird, natural funny bone that constantly comes out. It's not like my every instinct is to be funny, and I'm always having to dampen that down.

I usually tame my off-kilter sense of humor for novels.

When I say something funny, I don't laugh.

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you; but when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh. So you become the hero rather than the victim of the joke.

It's interesting - I always thought when I was doing more melodramatic stuff like 'Everwood' that the directors were constantly reeling me in and stopping me from being funny.

An uncontrolled sense of humor is often costly in business.

He laughs best who laughs least.

As a comedian who's used to, like, punching the jokes, it's hard to teach yourself that that's not the strong choice in the sense that you have to really have to dial it back.

One does not have humor. It has you.

A person who can laugh and go with life does not demand to be in control, which is why the most controlling people may be sarcastic but lack an authentic sense of humor.