Joel Coen

I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?

American Director

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.

Colombian Novelist

Julia Roberts

I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.

American Actress

David Hume

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

Scottish Philosopher

Evelyn Waugh

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.

English Author

Cher

I'm amusing and crazy on Twitter. I talk about important things, stupid things.

American Musician

Parvathy

Bollywood marketing is larger-than-life. Honestly, it amuses me.

Indian Actress

John Forsythe

It's rather amusing at my advanced age to become a sex symbol.

American Actor

William Ellery Channing

Life has a higher end, than to be amused.

American Writer

Andrew Lang

Scottish Poet

Amuse in this context implies a positive response such as laughter or a smile.

Positive emotion

Using 'amuse' suggests a deliberate attempt to provoke laughter or enjoyment.

Active Effort

Often used in social scenarios where someone is trying to entertain a group.

Social context

In this sense, 'amuse' means keeping someone pleasantly occupied or preoccupied.

Pleasantly occupied

The word can indicate an activity that someone does on their own to pass the time.

Self-driven activity

Amusement can come from a multitude of activities, not just entertainment.

Variety of activities

 how catastrophe can lead to transformation, gives us, actually, I think, reasonable cause to hope. One thing that I'm noticing that I'm, like, a little bit amused by is that when people start predicting what the post-pandemic world is going to be, I notice that their predictions seem to be, suspiciously,

It's OK to feel...

 I mean, these are sort of the extreme examples, and they're amusing and good to laugh at. But there's a very serious point, and I think that in the headlong dash of daily life, we often lose sight of the damage that this roadrunner form of living does to us. We're so marinated in the culture of speed

Carl Honore: In praise...

 Suppose we give an A.I. the goal to make humans smile. When the A.I. is weak, it performs useful or amusing actions that cause its user to smile. When the A.I. becomes superintelligent, it realizes that there is a more effective way to achieve this take control of the world

What happens when our...

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Innovative and cost...

 From that day on, the tanuki became an esteemed guest of the temple. He could frequently be found telling tales and performing tricks that amused even the most serious monks. Villagers came from far away to see the temple tanuki,

The Japanese myth of the...

 his native language amused oh and one of the main characters is his mother is Maya's goals as a storyteller is to really portrait a new image of indigenous communities that can help them overcome stereotypes and be more

Storytellers Summit Day...

 and help life spread into the cosmos, but there was much less agreement about who or what should be in charge. And I was actually quite amused to see that there's some some people who want it to be just machines.

How to get empowered,...

 to amuse and amaze each other by, who knows, telling jokes, storytelling, dancing, or hairstyling. Yes, hairstyling -- I insist on that. For us moderns, virtuoso technique is used to create imaginary worlds

A Darwinian theory of...

 Amusing? Yes. Desirable? Maybe. Important? Not so very. But this wasn't always the way. And I'd like to suggest that if we take a different view of design, and focus less on the object

Tim Brown urges...

 We adore babies because they’re so cute. And, of course, we are amused by jokes because they are funny.