Parker Posey Quotes

Comedians period, in general, have demons, and myself included.

Half of me is this wacked-out comedienne who will do anything for a buck and a laugh. Well, at least for a laugh. But the other half is a lot darker, sadder and more pensive. It's the dark side that feeds the outrageousness and allows it to surface. I think that's true for anyone with comic flair.

I know a lot of sad people who aren't comedians.

Look at Sam Beckett. Most depressed man who ever lived, but he sure was funny.

A comedian is not funny unless he is taking his demons out for a walk.

Being witty was the only side effect of being depressed that was working for me.

Comedy is a camouflage for depression.

I've been insane for a long time. An ex-girlfriend of mine once asked, "Is it true that all comedians are depressed?," and I said, "Every one I know is."

The glass is always half empty. All good comedians are manic-depressive.

I was a really, really depressed kid.

At times, I feel overwhelmed and my depression leads me into darkness.

People think comedians don't do drama. Comics are drama. And what is drama, as opposed to comedy? It's all the same to me.

Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.

Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.

There is a cliche that probably has some anecdotal evidence on the side that comedians are very depressed people, but that's because no one is ever going to seem as funny in a normal conversation as compared to when they're up there onstage in the spotlight making a huge audience keel over with laughter.

I can certainly see how people are overcome by depression.

I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.

I felt like I was the only person on the planet with this 'thing called depression', and I remember being frightened. I was knocked out and dopey, and I cried all of the time.

Although I do use some of my psychology training in comedy, but it's more like pop psychology, not a course of treatment or anything. To me, it's more like social intelligence.

I have a lot of bad days.

I have a tremendous battle with melancholy and depression.

Life is dramatic and comedic at times. Sometimes in the most dramatic situations, there is comedy. And good comedy comes from a sense of reality.

I always say that the stand-up world is the arena of the unwell, and it is.

But I will say that most comedians are the saddest people I know. That is the biggest paradox to me.

Most comedy comes out of misery.