Pierce Brosnan Quotes

My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.

When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.

To me, most comedy is dark comedy.

I would love to be part of dark comedies. I love them! They are no-nonsense, no spoonfeeding, and the norms and cliches are left behind.

I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels - smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful.

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.

I think Britain has this tradition which suggests that if you make the readers laugh too much, you can't really be serious. Whereas, I think one of the functions laughter can perform in a book, as in life, is that it's a reaction to genuine horror.

The energy in a comedy is very serious. Somebody said comedy is a tragedy plus time. When you have a tragedy, for example, like this, like, 'We're going to die,' and you have time, like, five hours to die, it becomes a comedy.

There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.

'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

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

I prefer comedies when they come from a dark kind of place and have a reality to it.

I think a joke is a form of truth-telling. A good joke that's absurd contains elements of our daily darkness and also a possibility to escape that darkness. So, for me, humor is an attempt to capture everyday tragedy and everyday hopeful moments that we experience all of the time.

All comedy is funny because it tells us truths that we recognise through laughter, but that doesn't mean it can't be unnerving. Think of 'Fawlty Towers'; it can be very, very dark, but by God, it's funny. The two things are not in opposition.

From my point of view, humour and irony include tragedy; they're two sides of the same coin.

That's what people forget about, is that when things are very, very powerful in a sad way, they have that possibility of also being over-the-top, hysterically funny.

Very few people took sordid things and made comedies out of them.

Humor is the only way to tell a story. Especially the dark ones.

It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway.

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

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

I like a person who knows how to say something dark at a very dark moment. The darker the moment and the darker the comic, the better. Something that is so wrong on all levels.

I don't see any division between the comic and the tragic. I feel like I'm writing about serious things, and humour is one of my tools. It's not contrived, just part of my world, part of the way things are to me.

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