Douglas Costa Quotes

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.

It's so funny, because right now I'm very tired and my brains a little dead, I tend to get very focused and serious. So, I'm probably coming off a lot more like Scully right now.

I don't really listen to music when I work. I really have to focus on one thing at a time. I like a lot of quiet and peace when I'm working or when I'm thinking or when I'm reading.

When I write I find a quiet place.

I'm not much of a jokester.

I really do work in solitude.

I live in solitude. I have need of solitude to do the next day's work. I can't be to parties where the noise tires me. I can't speak on the telephone. I must have complete calm.

You're not going to see my sense of humor on the football field. That's not a place for me to joke around.

I'm a total loner. I can't even answer texts or take my phone with me when I'm working!

I've always liked to be on my own, since I was young. I like the sound of a quiet place. It helps me focus.

If life a joke then I’m waiting for the punch. You all about the beef but me, I’m bout the bun.

I think that I probably break on set more than I make other people break. I've realized recently that, in my everyday social life, I'm a very easygoing person, but when it comes to work, I'm pretty type - A. I'm very focused and I take it maybe too seriously sometimes. So, when I'm on set, even when there are really funny people that I'm in the scenes with, I'm generally good at not breaking too often.

There is a joke that I use all the time. I say it to my kids. I used to say it to my wife. She'd be talking to me about something very serious and then I would just look at her and go "Where are you from originally?" And she would go "Humphhh! C'mon. That's terrible!"

This is getting funny, but there ain't nobody laughing.

I'm not as serious of a person as people make me out to be. Most people would think that I would be less successful in comedy, but I can crack a joke as well as anyone else.

Humor is not far from my vocabulary.

Introverts prefer to work independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation.

I'm a people person when I'm out, but I'm a homebody. I like my time and peace and quiet.

I don’t take my life seriously, but I do take what I do – in my life – seriously -

The kind of über-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, "Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny."

I can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I'm in the company of good friends, but I'm not a jokesmith. I tend to be quite serious.

What is a sense of humor? Surely not the ability to understand a joke. It comes rather from a residing feeling of one's own absurdity. It is the ability to understand a joke, and that the joke is on oneself.

You don't have to think really hard to get the joke. I think humor in general appeals to all people.