humor

"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."

"Love waits patiently. In the lobby. I’ll be with you as soon as I can."

"If you're playing a good guy, you show some darkness. If you're playing a dark guy, you show something different, like humor, that will mix it up and hopefully surpass the audience's expectations. What I'm battling all the time is complacency in the audience. I try to bring a little mystery to what might happen because that engages people more."

"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."

"I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours."

"Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with."

"I bet you anything that 10 times out of 10, Nicky, Vinny and Tony will beat the shit out of Todd, Kyle and Tucker."

"Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong."

"Throw in the humor, throw in that personality, try things you wouldn't normally try."

"When the silent flamingo dances pink with desire, I’ll be there, sipping on owl stares and kitten curls."

"I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point."

"Start every day off with a smile and get it over with."

"Love is like whoa! Actually, it's closer to woe."

"At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic."

"The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little."

"There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words."[Interview, The Paris Review, Summer 1956]"

"Certainly my personality, my sense of humor, my outlook on life was informed by the experiences of my parents and the stories they shared with me."

"Exactly!"said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means."

"As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis."

"Mother humor is such a universal theme. I wrote a show called '25 Questions for a Jewish Mother.' I had people coming up to me after the show saying, 'I'm Baptist, and my mother is just like yours.'"