Jonathan Stroud Quotes

Fame is sexy. And women are meant to find men who are funny sexy. But not me. Absolutely not me. Clearly I just missed the sexy bit.

I'm just not very funny.

I'm real tall when I stand on my charisma.

I think I'm funnier in my writing than in person.

I've got a sick sense of humour, a dark sense of humour. I do care about things and care about people but there's another side to me.

Humor comes from self-confidence.

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.

I like funny things, but I don't find myself particularly funny.

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

I'm not very funny!

I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.

You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.

I usually balance out autobiography with goofy, amusing stuff to help keep the humour in my more serious work.

I don't think I'm funny.

I don't just try to be funny.

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

Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.

It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured.

I am comfortable playing the fool, I think.

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.

I'm not a particularly shiny, happy person. I'm fairly cynical, and that's what draws me to comedy.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

I like a man with a nice, self-deprecating sense of humour.