Len Deighton Quotes

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.

There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.

I love the idea of things being strict and things being uniform. That's the reason why I surround each collection with humor or irony. I want to make sure that it's not too serious and that there is some element that throws it off because otherwise that would make it really boring. There's always a story that's somewhat fantastical.

What also helps our show is that we never take ourselves seriously.

Things I say are sometimes silly.

Apparently, I don't want to take myself too seriously.

In comedy you have to be willing to not take yourself seriously, you know? I take comedy really seriously, and so to take comedy seriously, you must not, you cannot, ever take yourself seriously.

I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.

I have to be entertained by what I'm writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatological quality. If these characters can entertain me, then I feel like I can deal with the darker or more serious stuff.

I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.

I think I have a sense of mischief and that I can laugh at myself.

I have a lot of faith in the power of joking to make something thoughtful.

I think Rush have always had this reputation, particularly to non-fans, of being an ultra-serious and cerebral group when, in fact, the reverse is true. We don't take ourselves seriously at all. Sure, we take our music seriously, but that's altogether different.

I have a good sense of humor. I think everything we do should have whimsy in it.

I like a man with a nice, self-deprecating sense of humour.

I'm a real paradox. Because I'm a very serious person, and I take my work very seriously. But I wrap it up in a court jester and a clown and make people laugh and make them feel good about themselves.

I've always had a sick sense of humor, and I've always wanted that to permeate the music because I don't take myself seriously. I take the music seriously, but I know I'm not God's gift to anyone except my mom.

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

I've got many different voices - I have a Southern girl, an Irish girl. I have a gibberish language that you'd have to decipher. I guess I try to never take myself too seriously.

There are two things that come very easily to me: rooting for New York sports teams and making mistakes.

I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously; I find that a very tedious attitude.

I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

Anybody who knows me knows that half the time I'm saying things with a somewhat humorous overtone.

Most of my artwork is geared towards being humorous in some light.