Genndy Tartakovsky Quotes

You can't just yell jokes at people.

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

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

I'm not good at telling a joke, but I can say a line in a certain way that makes people uncomfortable because they don't know whether to laugh or not, and I love that comedy.

I know what people laugh at. I know their vocabulary.

Being funny is everything to me.

I cannot tell a joke. But I can do a situation, that it becomes a joke.

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

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

You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain.

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

I'm really sarcastic. Not Morgan Webb sarcastic. She's dry, 100%. I'm different from her.

Sometimes a witticism has no truth behind it.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.

I have a really dark, rich, thick sense of humor.

I'm not the voice of reason; I'm more the guy using these offensive topics as fodder to raise tension in a joke.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.

I've never really told jokes. I'm not good at it.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Cool is the enemy of funny. You can't be cool and be funny at the same time. Only Eddie Murphy could do that.