Ayda Field Quotes

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

My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

By the way, I'm funniest when I'm not being funny. I'm better to laugh at than with, pretty much.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

The whole point of comedy, what's fun, is taking the stupid thought I had and working it into something that makes a bunch of people laugh.

I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

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.

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

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

When I'm playing comedy, I never do 'jokes.' Sometimes I'll deliver a line in a way I think is more likely to get a laugh, but all the best comedy is played straight. What's funny is the way it hits the world around it or the way it hits the other characters.

Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.

If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny.

If I don't offend somebody, then I'm probably not funny.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.

Inappropriate behavior makes me laugh.

It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.