Vera Farmiga Quotes

Most of what I write is comedy.

The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.

I haven't played Hedda Gabler yet, but maybe if I did I might find the funny bits.

Jane Austen is very amusing.

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.

Puns are the highest form of literature.

Sometimes my humor does offend people, and I've said it before: I don't write jokes to be offensive. I write jokes to be funny, and I guess what I find funny are things that other people sometimes find offensive. I would love nothing more than to never offend anyone, but it just doesn't seem to work out that way.

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

I am a writer—a comic and satirical writer. I am much better at poking fun at politicians who screw up than I am of telling them what to do.

My only rule about a joke is that it should be funny.

I don't know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.

I don't write punch lines.

We don't really see a lot of comedic moments in '24.' In fact, I haven't seen all of it, but from what I have seen, I don't know if I've ever laughed at anything that anyone has done on '24.'

I think of everything as comedy, but I don't think of it in terms of sitcom comedy, I think of it in terms of Chekhov comedy. Chekhov called his plays comedies. There's always a mixture of a laugh with sadness. So the plie to the laugh is sadness.

It has to come from a truthful place in order to be funny.

A lot of people can find something to laugh at in my humor, I guess.

I've always thought the word cow was funny. And cows are sort of tragic figures. Cows blur the line between tragedy and humor.

Paul Rudd has a very specific brand of humor.

Comedy isn't just timing; it's about rooting out the funny in the real. You just bend reality to the left a little.

I do find things funny. When you see life through the eyes of someone with a good sense of humor, which my grandmother did, life is a human comedy.

Comedy is only funny when there's real pain.

If you have a character that doesn't have anything wrong with him, there's nothing funny about it. The idea of the straight man is very important. But I'd rather it be somebody else, because it's not as fun.

'Harvey' continues to be both a charming and hilarious play.

I find Spike Jones' movies to be really very inventive and funny, but they're really sad and touching and really key into the different facets of the human experience.