Taki Theodoracopulos Quotes

Humor could not flourish in a wholly serious and rational atmosphere.

My whole life I try to make into a comedy, so it would be nice to see that onscreen.

You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance.

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

Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a way to be likable yet to remain removed. When I speak up, it's not because I have any particular answers; rather, I have a desire to puncture the pretentiousness of those who seem so certain they do.

I love an act that makes fun of the situation, and of course makes fun of yourself. That's important, you can't take yourself too seriously.

You just can't take yourself too seriously, especially in comedy.

Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

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.

I think laughter is the best medicine. If you can't laugh at yourself, then you can't laugh at life and the silliness of it all.

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

Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine. Like, if Jerry Seinfeld wasn't funny, you'd want to punch him in the face; he'd just seem like a whiner to you. But the fact is that he's funny.

I love comedy because I can laugh at myself. I don't take myself too seriously.

I've turned arrogance into an artform, where it's so absurd that it becomes comedy. But I've never done anything to hurt anybody or steal from anyone.

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.

I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.

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.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets; you may not find something to laugh about immediately.

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.