Blake Bailey Quotes

I always gravitate toward the humor in something.

Humor comes from self-confidence.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

For me, humor is everything!

Being funny is everything to me.

Funny is funny is funny.

They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up.

I have a lot of faith in the power of joking to make something thoughtful.

Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.

There's no such thing as a cheap laugh.

Humor is a blessing to me. My earliest recollections are of looking at something and seeing the lighter side. But it's always spontaneous. I couldn't write a comedy skit for someone else.

I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

I think everything's funny, to be honest.

I don't think humor is something to be afraid of.

Humor without sadness underneath it feels cheap and aggressive.

I think it's important to have a sense of humor. You have to be able to laugh at yourself.

Sometimes it's difficult to laugh at certain things but comedy can help.

Some people don't have a sense of humor.

I like humor.

I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

I think that certain things are funny and certain things are okay to make fun of - including myself.

I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.