Cynthia Heimel Quotes

If you don't laugh, you're going to cry and people are crying. That's why I guess you have lots of people like comedians to keep us laughing.

Comedians period, in general, have demons, and myself included.

A comedian is simply a different kind of therapist. A comedian is a psychologist and a psychiatrist rolled into one. Except I can't prescribe medicine. (You still need a doctorate, which is bullshit.) Okay, so I'm not like a psychiatrist. Fine. But I'm still like a psychologist (except I can't diagnose or treat mental illness).

I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to that dark place.

Most comedians come from a dark past and have a lot of sadness.

I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.

Part of doing stand-up is to get things off your chest. It's a bit like being in a psychiatrist's chair - but more enjoyable.

Comedians are not well people. Well people are not drawn to creating.

As with anything that involves emotional pain, comedy isn't too far behind. There's that element of no matter how painful something is - as long as it is not you that is going through it - it can be funny.

Oftentimes, the funniest comedians are people who've gone through personal torment.

I am a product... I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh. I make sense out of ridiculous situations, but in the end, it's all about laughter. It's all about your cheek hurting, your stomach hurting.

I’m a ridiculous person. If you take anything any comedian says seriously, then you’re stupid.

I remember seeing Richard Pryor's first movie; it was a midnight movie when I was in high school. I must have been about fifteen. It was one of the most cathartic experiences of my life. I'd never laughed that much.

People who become comedians… come from pain, come from conflict.

I'm actually way more funny now, because I'm hungry... If comedy comes from pain, I should be funnier now than I ever was.

All the same, my depression and self-hatred, my desire to mutilate myself with broken bottles, my numbness and crying fits, my inability to get out of bed for days and days, the feeling of the world moving in to crush me, went on and on. But I knew I wouldn't go mad, even if that release, that letting-go, was a freedom I desired. I was waiting for myself to heal.

I can't drown my demons. They know how to swim.

Sometimes I feel like I'm possessed with a multitude of demons.

I've been insane for a long time. An ex-girlfriend of mine once asked, "Is it true that all comedians are depressed?," and I said, "Every one I know is."

Comedians have the ability to feel other emotions.

Comedy is a noble art. And every comedian who does anything is serving a noble purpose.

Comedy is a necessity to get through life with the fewest scars. Humor is the best antidote to help relieve all struggles.

For me, comedians are like the epitome for everything great, and they terrify me. I just want to be them. I want to be like them.

I've got many, many demons that affect me on many, many levels.