Julia Sweeney Quotes

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

The key to gallows humor is to make the joke, no matter how certain the gallows is.

In my own works I am an obsessionist. Though I write humorous music too, much of it has been obsessed by death and the tragic.

I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it was so absurd that you can't help laughing. And the person that was concerned about that story was laughing too.

Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it.

Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.

Remember kids, I have life insurance.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

Comedy is only funny when there's real pain.

Much of the best humor is found in the frequently tragic reality of human experience.

I think all good drama is funny. All the best drama is ultimately very funny. Life is funny. You can't have any honest treatise on life without bumping into some humor.

I guess what I always found funny was the human condition.

I find heartbreaking stuff really funny.

I like dark humor. I think the world is very funny and tragic, and my photographs are basically dark Jewish humor.

I find myself laughing at really bad situations.

O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.

I don't really find things funny unless they're deeply tragic at the same time. I think if you're funny just for the sake of being funny, it's just frivolous nonsense. To me, all the best comic plays have been written about really serious and rather bleak things.

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

I don't think it's a contradiction to find painfulness funny.

Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

There is humor in the darkest of moments - People who I have loved and passed away, and very high stake situations where you can't help but laugh. I think that's very human.

Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.