Bianca Del Rio Quotes

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

I do not deny that what happened to us is a thing worth laughing at. But it is not worth telling, for not everyone is sufficiently intelligent to be able to see things from the right point of view.

I think the word "intelligent" dictates a lot about someone's sense of humor, and the terms of reference in your life, the way you interpret something you read or a painting you look at or something.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

George Saunders is the funniest. He makes me laugh in the way I want to laugh - with so much empathy and deep understanding of people. He illuminates things and people I've never thought about - and I've dedicated my life to the study of people and their idiosyncrasies. He is light years ahead.

A little irreverence is always important to being a columnist. I try to do that.

You have to have a sense of humor about all of it - the Emmys and politics and everything.

'The Ugly Truth' isn't trying to change the world with strong political opinions; it's just trying to entertain you with thoughts and ideas from my crazy mind!

I like things that are funny and have a lot else in them besides that - ideas, for example.

Wit does not take the place of knowledge.

I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

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

I love that perhaps we don't see the things that are there because we have no yardstick to see things by, to compare them.

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

I've got a great sense of humor, and if I'm able to say or do something in a movie that people feel like they want to repeat, that's hugely flattering.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

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.

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.