Gilbert Gottfried Quotes

Life is tragic but it's equally comic.

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.

You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.

Our everyday lives exist with comedy and tragedy next to each other.

Comedy and tragedy co-exist. You can't have one without the other. I'm of the school that anything can be funny if seen from a comedic point of view.

It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny.

There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.

There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

If you want to reach any kind of poignancy or meaning a lot of times, coming from comedy is the best way to get there.

It is only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

There is nothing that is so serious that you can't also see its comic side. Comedy is a way of talking about the most serious things.

I think a good dollop of sadness is quite a useful thing in comedy sometimes. I think if everyone's happy all the time, it's a bit dull. It's like salt and caramel - you wouldn't imagine they would go well together, but they do.

Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.

That's what sort of fascinates me - what's funny as well as what's sad.

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

I think that life is very dark at times and there are things that are very funny about that.

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

Bert Williams was the funniest man I ever saw and the saddest man I ever knew.

Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away.

Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.