I think if I would have started BIG in America, I would probably never have called it BIG. There was nothing but a little bit of local small country humor in the idea.
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
I just am a snob when it comes to humor.
I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.
There's public humor, and there's private humor, and they're all appropriate in their own way, and you shouldn't - just as you wouldn't have a megaphone and say certain things that you would say around your friends - things that are perfectly all right within your close social group with whom you share a certain context.
My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.
I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. You just have to get through it.
I feel like I've always had a sordid sense of humor, and it's only gotten more twisted as I've gotten older.
Through the years, I have been overwhelmed by the number of people who have shared how much they relate to my 'Sordid Lives' family, and how many gay men and women used it to come out to their conservative families through the humor of the film.
Often, contrasts bring art to life: the bright speck of paint on a dark canvas; the tightrope walk between humor and tragedy.
I think there are more good sportswriters doing more good sportswriting than ever before. But I also believe that the one thing that's largely gone out is what made sport such fertile literary territory - the characters, the tales, the humor, the pain, what Hollywood calls 'the arc.'
That's how to make a stand-up comedian: You take a person who is uncomfortable and try to squirrel their way out of it through humor.
'Trek' is probably more cerebral and philosophical. 'Stargate' does seat-of-the-pants adventure and humor better.
We are really living the American dream, to be a successful brand in the States and in Europe and to steep ourselves in our heritage. But we do it with a sense of humor. We don't take ourselves too seriously in fashion.
Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.
Back in 2004, Kellie Overbey handed me her play 'Girl Talk' to read. I fell in love with her brutally delicious humor and the fearlessly deft way in which she drew her characters. They jumped off the page and begged me to give them a space in which to stomp around.
What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
I'm a big fan of independent girls who are strong-willed, vocal in their opinions, and have a sense of humor.
Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.