David Sedaris Quotes

I love 'Glee.' I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it okay to cry.

Humor is the secret into the audience's other ranges of emotions.

In 'Malvolio,' the audience laugh at me, and I use that laughter to crack open the question as to why they are laughing.

The original 'Scream' is one of those classic things, but it totally pokes fun at itself too. It's never taking itself too seriously, which is why I think it's such a cult classic.

Who didn't cry at 'The Notebook?' If you didn't cry at 'The Notebook,' something is probably wrong with you.

Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

There's a lot of movies, and I've made some of them that could be categorized this way, but there's definitely been a trend in animated features of all types to be a little bit cynical, if you will, to have a little bit of 'knowing' humor to them, kind of a wink to the audience.

I don't want to make people cry - unless it's with happiness.

Basic Instinct 2' is camp, not because it takes itself too seriously, nor because it sends itself up, but because we are not sure quite how seriously it wants us to take it.

You can make me laugh at a thing that I think is horrific. You can make me laugh at a thing that affects me personally. But if you've done your homework and you've gone about it the right way, it will still be funny.

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

I'm a sap, I'll cry at anything. But I don't cry when I feel manipulated, or when there's a music cue telling me to.

Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires ... How avant-garde!

I cry a lot. I'll cry because I see a person walking down the street looking lonely.

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.

However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, 'I'm just crying because of how wrong you are.'

Humor is the easiest to achieve; the 'heart' is always the toughest, because you can't tell people to feel a certain way.

I'm extremely moved by the loving, caring relationship the President always seems to have with his imaginary son.

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

And it takes so much energy to stay angry with someone who cries so much.

Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a satire.

I love you,' Rachael said. 'If I entered a room and found a sofa covered with your hide I'd score very high on the Voigt-Kampff test.

The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.

My other car is a vehicle with a bumper sticker describing this car.