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" I don't feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor. "

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" Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say and it's true, I do have a certain fondness for women that have dark hair. "

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" A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. "

William Arthur Ward

" If I were bombing with my jokes in English, I would go back to France. Maybe do that mime thing. "

" Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. "

" Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. "

" My name, my origins, my background and my experiences are what leveraged my success. The angle of the immigrant, through which I examined the reality in France, distinguished me. "

" Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives. "

" Eventually I was saying to myself, maybe it would be better, instead of trying to become an American comedian in France, to mix those two styles and those two genres. Because of course it's good to be efficient and sharp, and to have a joke every twenty seconds, but it can be a little cold and dry. "

" In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. "

Thomas Jefferson

" Professional comedians, surprisingly, have a lack of humor. They're insensitive to the insanity of our times. "

" A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. "

Mignon McLaughlin

" I want to talk to the audience. This is what I've been doing in my work in French forever - talking about small things becoming big problems. I notice all the details, all the tiny little things. "

" There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people. I'm talking about a writer's critics, who don't address what you've written, but want to probe into your existence and magnify the trivia of your life without any sense of humor, without any sense of context. "

" I like George Carlin's jokes. I like his humor. He's one of my heroes, and I like what he did with talking about everyday things. "

" You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That's what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor. "

" Americans don't like puns and plays on words, which is totally opposite in the comedy world to France or even Italy and Germany. "

" I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow. "

" A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life. "

" Sometimes I used to think to myself, 'Have I lost a sense of humor?' but I don't think that I have. I think one can be as snarky and sarcastic as lots of people, but I have never found that it makes me particularly happy. "

Kenneth Branagh

" The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense. "

" Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them. "

Simon Wiesenthal

" Most of the time, the truth is ugly and in your face! My observational brand of humor is very much all in your face! "

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" The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" A good-humored wife who appreciates most, if not all, of my humor - her price is far above rubies, as the book of Proverbs doesn't quite say. "

" All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the bread line - right in back of J. Edgar Hoover. "

" A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man. "

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" If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything. "

" Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. "