Kanika Dhillon Quotes

I write with humour about sadness, to introduce an element of sweet to the sour, a bit like Turkish food.

One of the things the police officers told us in the first minutes of being with them is that the way that they cope with their job is by using a lot of inappropriate humour. It's really a lovely opportunity to try to challenge our ideas of what it is to deal with complex issues, and that they're not always dower. Having that kind of humour along with the pathos for what people are going through is a really nice challenge.

I usually balance out autobiography with goofy, amusing stuff to help keep the humour in my more serious work.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.

I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.

The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.

Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.

When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke.

I love inappropriate humour.

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

I am a passionate believer that comedy is a way of tackling some of the most dark and difficult aspects of being a human being.

I can cry all day long - that's easy for me.

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.

When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

I get sort of short with people and start grumbling and clearing my throat - in honor of my father - when I'm impatient. It's very charming.

I have a sick sense of humor. Like, I'm always laughing at my own pain.

I think the humor, when applied in the right amount, only serves to intensify the other emotions in a given song; it highlights them, makes them stand out.

Adding comedy into what I do is just my natural approach. It's how I approach anything that I find tricky or daunting, because it's like putting syrup in your medicine, and it just makes it easier to go down.

The way to talk about something sad is to sing a funny song about it.

I always felt like the best comedy came out of sadness, and some of my favourite shows growing up - a lot of my influences - have these very sad characters and treat that sadness seriously while also being very funny.

Humor is a way to deal with stresses. It is a way to cope.

Humor was how I got through everything in my life. I used to find a funny way to get out of situations. That's who I was. That's who I am!

I find myself laughing at really bad situations.