R. L. Stine Quotes

I never thought I was funny, but I enjoy being funny.

I used to have this joke: 'Every hallway is a runway.'

I have a good sense of humor. I think everything we do should have whimsy in it.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

I don't feel that I'm explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I'm not trying to be a mirror, showing them what's really going on the world. All I'm trying to do is think of stuff that's funny, just like when I'm kidding around with my friends.

I wanted to be clever, but being funny came first. That's how you know someone is clever. They don't come out and tell you pi to 13 places - they tell you a joke.

I'm going to take this God-given gift of being funny, and I'm going to spread it out like peanut butter on everything I do.

I think the desire to be funny was a mixture of wanting to be liked but also wanting to throw your elbows a bit.

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

Life is as horrifyingly frightening as it is hilarious.

I have no shame when it comes to making people laugh. I don't care what I look like.

Sometimes the stuff I come up with is so silly I feel like I need to apologize at the end of every one of them.

Humour is ahead of everything creatively. I think if things aren't humorous, they are just crap.

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

There's not one thing that inspires me the most. Me and my friends joke around with each other and hang out so much that whatever makes us laugh really hard makes it into 'Workaholics.' But the characters that I think are funny are guys that are confidently stupid.

I started doing improv when I was 8 years old, so it's always been in my life. I would feel naked without it.

I'm not too modest of a person. I've got a pretty blue sense of humor.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

I'm good at being funny.

I was fooling everyone by surrounding myself with funny people. But then I put myself out there - writing my own sketches, going on stage with nobody surrounding me - and for some reason people were still laughing.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you're doing. That's my way.

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

You can't make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody.

I refuse not to have a sense of humour.

Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.