Best Humor Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I've often liked a girl, made her laugh, and thought she liked me, and then found out that she didn't like me that way. I've definitely done time in the friend zone.”

“To people who don't get what we do, I say I create entertainment and comedy videos on YouTube - and they usually still don't get it.”

“YouTube is such a funny little world. You can create a fanbase.”

“Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.”

“I'm the youngest in my family, and everyone is very funny, and I was always trying to keep up with them. I just loved making people laugh.”

“I would like to help young women writing comedy, acting, anything like that.”

“As a young woman in politics, with few women around, you start to subconsciously behave like men in politics. That comes across as quite hard, tough and humorless, but you're trying to be taken seriously.”

“I always wanted to be that funny young guy who people were like, 'This is the next Belushi or Farley.'”

“At a very young age, I realized that with my disability, I could cry or laugh.”

“I think because of the Internet I was able to study comedy from quite a young age and watch a lot of comedy.”

“Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday.”

“When I make a film, the yardstick is my mind. If I laugh at the jokes and feel sad at the serious undersides, then the subject works.”

“Two things I really wanted to be: a stand-up comic or a New York Yankee - or a really funny New York Yankee.”

“The joke we always say is that WWE doesn't pay us to wrestle, they pay us to travel.”

“Comedy is not good for anything, really. Apart from being one of the only things that makes life worth living.”

“It's hard to write comedy when you're worried all the time.”

“Being a fighter is no joke. Year in and year out. Especially as a world champion. All eyes are on you, and you can't go where you want, eat what you want.”

“You never let somebody come from outside the business, have their way with the business, and then leave the next day and laugh at you. How the hell does David Arquette become World Champion?”

“It's funny the way things often work out for the best.”

“I work hard, and I make people laugh. What's wrong with that?”

“To make 800 people laugh for a couple of hours is a wonderful feeling, because you know you're doing them a lot of good.”

“Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all.”

“When did I start comedy? I came out of the womb and did 10 minutes.”

“I would really love to do an action movie. An action comedy would be right in my wheel house. But those are really hard to come by.”

“If there's an audience, I think they're going to expect me to be funny. But what if I'm not funny? What if I fail?”

“In every John Waters book, you're like: 'Wait, how can this guy be so funny in a... book?' It's like you can hear his voice talking to you through the page.”

“I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.”

“I liked 'Serious Men,' and 'Scam 1992' is amazing, what a show! I also watched 'Comedy Couple,' that too was amazing.”

“Antonin Scalia was witty, warm, funny, and full of life. He was not only one of the most important justices in the nation's history; he was also among the greatest.”

“I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy.”

“People are like, 'How did you get so funny?' And I'm like, 'Wait, am I funny?'”

“I try and be as vulnerable in my comedy as possible, to open that door for other people.”

“I love the vulgar. I kind of have the humor of a 17-year-old boy.”

“I think if you turn down the volume on the good comedy, you should not even know if it's a comedy or not. It should look like a drama.”

“We need more female voices to come out there and do comedy.”

“A lot of times, comedy writers will go for the gay joke, and I've been vocal about saying, 'Go for the smart joke.'”

“I know what people laugh at. I know their vocabulary.”

“I didn't get into comedy to talk about violent death all the time.”

“Language in comedy is very violent.”

“I love Vines. You make this 6.4-second drama, and you can reach 6 million viewer, and make people laugh. I find it so fabulous.”

“I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.”

“My friends joke that I'm a young veteran in the UFC.”

“I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita,' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows.”

“Doing comedy is still in my veins; that's my first love.”

“I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.”

“Comedy is not the first choice in Vegas for entertainment.”

“Comedy has got me all these opportunities and I enjoy doing a variety of things. I can't really believe I've got the chance to have my own radio show.”

“Women are under-represented in TV comedy for a variety of reasons, the hackneyed 'fear that women aren't funny' being one of them.”

“All of my family members have had moments where they're upset with me because I'll cavalierly write a story just to be funny.”

“I see them turn around to get a second look. You hear a lot of people laugh at you. So what? I used to get upset about it, but not anymore. You know, laugh all you can.”

“Stand-up is successful if they laugh. It's unsuccessful if they don't laugh.”

“If someone makes you feel wrong-footed, you're unlikely to find them witty.”

“As a woman, you can be funny and 50, but you can't do much else - unless you're Helen Mirren!”

“You can be funny about your kids without being unkind.”

“Voyeurism, watching people go about their daily lives, is universally funny, no matter the culture, no matter the anything, it's just always funny to watch people.”

“Comedy is a universal language.”

“You know, funny can be universal.”

“We're all funny. Humor unites us.”

“A film unit is like a family, you not just work together but laugh, cry and fight also.”

“What I've understood is that to be funny is not my job. To see funny is my job.”

“To me, I've never understood why there is any question about are women as funny as men.”

“Comedy is just an unspoken language. Everybody understands it. Funny is funny. When it's not funny, they'll let you know.”

“People who do comedy are always underrated because they make it look so easy.”

“I think it is a great gift to make people laugh, and it shouldn't be underestimated.”

“The thing about my comedy is that I'm so comfortable with my disability that you don't have a right to be uncomfortable.”

“If I'm in an uncomfortable situation, I think I can say something funny to defuse it. Sometimes you can't.”

“If life's not funny, then it's just true - and that would be unacceptable.”

“Comedy is the ultimate meritocracy: if you're good at it, you'll have success.”

“I loved women who weren't afraid to get ugly in their comedy.”

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

“A lot of times girls think they're funny, but they want to pretty at the same time, and if you want to be funny, you have to be willing to get ugly.”

“'SOS' is a typical out-an-out comedy, where I play Sanjay Dutt's brother and Ajay Devgn plays our long lost family enemy.”

“Yes, it is funny that most of the roles that I have played so far have been negative. I have been typecast as a villain.”

“I think sometimes actors who have predominately done comedy get a little typecast by some people.”

“I don't know how you can do comedy once every two weeks. Ever since I started, if I'm off for three days, I got to learn how to do comedy again.”

“To me, 'X Factor' is like Vegas. Fake, twisted, but kind of wonderful. Maybe I'm sick, but I find the whole thing quite funny sometimes.”

“Even in a comedy, you have to make people feel. You have to put your hand inside their soul and twist out their heart.”

“I always say to my friends, 'We're the people who like funny TV shows a little too much, to the point where we needed to make our lives like them.'”

“Right now my favorite TV show - because it's too close to home - is 'My Name Is Earl.' That show kills me. There's some funny stuff in there.”

“I don't want to end up being some joke on a bad TV series.”

“Comedy is a place where you can tell all the truths, where you can tell your truth.”

“It has to come from a truthful place in order to be funny.”

“A lot of the time, you're supposed to play to the top of your intelligence, as truthful as possible. But when you're on stage making people laugh, you're still acting. I think it helped me a bunch to go on stage two or three times a week.”

“If people still trust me with a funny line, then that is fine. If that is what gets me work.”

“I found Leonora Carrington's 'The Hearing Trumpet' really funny.”

“People laugh to forget their troubles, and to forget their troubles they like to look at people who aren't doing better than they are.”

“I was the troublemaker, always being funny - that's just who I am.”

“A lot of the times, anything that somebody tries to say negative is actually kind of funny.”

“I think human beings are funny, tricky things.”

“My role of Gutthi is not a joke on the female gender but a tribute to them. Gutthi is in fact just like any other woman I came across while growing up in my native village.”

“I really don't do fat jokes. I talk about the trials and tribulations of being a large mammal in America.”

“There's a tremendous amount of humor... in very unexpected places.”

“I do find comedy difficult. I don't know why. Maybe I think about it too much. There's a tremendous amount of pressure to be funny.”

“The more trauma and bad experiences you have, the more you are able to laugh on yourself and the situation.”

“I am very good at comedy off screen. I wish I could translate it so that you could get to see how mad I am.”

“I love playing football. I always look at it as there's a lot worse things you can be doing than coming into a training ground in the morning and playing footy and having a laugh with the boys.”

“I want to do things or write things that make people feel a bit more beautiful or tragic or something because there are so many other things than just funny.”

“Even the most tragic moments can have moments of comedy.”

“Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.”

“You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.”