Betty Shabazz Quotes

I think I'm funnier in my writing than in person.

Funny is when you're serious.

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

I want to show the world my humor.

I was this non-threatening funny guy who contrasted the image of the Brezhnevs and the Reagans of the world.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

I was never really comfortable doing comedy.

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

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.

I feel like a lot of serious music lives in generalizations - 'Love is a flower,' 'The sky is so dark' - but comedy lives in specifics.

For a comedienne, you have to have a little tragedy or a dark side, just not too much. Otherwise it's too disruptive.

I've been thinking of humorous things since I was... I can't remember when. All the way through elementary school, all the way through junior high, all the way through high school, through college and after college, I was thinking of the same kinds of things that I say in front of an audience now.

You cannot have the drama without comedy.

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

There's so much humor in serious things sometimes.

I've been acting for years. I always act surprised when Marco Rubio says something stupid.

Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.

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.

Comedy is the difference between how you see a person and how they see themselves.

I think the humor, when applied in the right amount, only serves to intensify the other emotions in a given song; it highlights them, makes them stand out.

I really like comedy because it is really fun to be in - even though you are playing it straight.

I think comedy suits me best.

I love down-and-dirty and grit. But I do think that my favorite dramas are ones that are dark comedies because I think that the only way the audience and the actor can really go as dark and deep as you may want to go is if there's some levity added to it.

When you get the high art of William Shakespeare and the greatest love story ever told, and you collision crash it with the low art of the tacky garden gnome, you're going to have lots and lots of opportunity for fun and putting your tongue very firmly in your cheek.