My father was an electrical engineer who worked at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. When I was growing up, my mother wrote humor columns for the local paper. She was the Erma Bombeck of Murrysville, Pa.
I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that’s all you’ve got, it’s just boring. Everything I write, whether it’s happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it.
Hateful words stand no chance against self-worth and a little of humor.
Someone talented, comfortable in his own skin and with a great sense of humor would be sexy according to me.
The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place.
I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny – partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it’s a way of laughing at it and getting a release.
My sense of humor lies a little closer to the middle.
‘War on Everyone,’ I think… the script was hilarious to me, but it’s very dark, dark humor. It’s super dark.
If somebody is not on the same page with me humor wise, I can’t give them that.
Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.
With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
A man’s man is respectful, he’s honorable, he’s loyal, he’s sensitive, he’s strong, he’s tough, he’s well-groomed, he has a sense of humor – and he takes care of himself and his lady.
Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.
Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner’s manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
Somebody says, ‘Do a Tom Bodett, a folksy kind of thing,’ and it sounds like something out of ‘Hee Haw,’ very insulting. They turn wry humor into disparaging sarcasm, and you get what amounts to insulting advertising.
Kindness is really important to me in finding my own prince – so are patience and a sense of humor. Without those qualities he’s no Prince Charming!
In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
Reilly Brown is a master of balancing action, humor, and extreme violence, and his character designs for some of the alien races and technology that we encounter is just amazing.
I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.
You have to have a sense of humor about life to get through it.
Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.
Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.
I wish I could be as thin as Jessica Simpson. I think she looks gorgeous! I have had Jessica on my show several times, and I can tell you that girl is genuine and funny with a great self-deprecating sense of humor.
Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
