Adam Pally Quotes

I don't know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.

I was pretty dorky, but there are tiers of dorkdom and I always had friends, though they were equally dorky. I was one of those kids who contracted cooties in the second grade and then had cooties, because there wasn't a vaccine for it. When I was around people, though, I generally wanted to make them laugh. I told a lot of stories.

Misery is the stuff of comedy, if one can just live long enough to get over it.

It's so funny how my name has always been such a big deal. When I was growing up, my family was always moving. I had to meet new people all the time. And they'd laugh.

I was a precocious only child, and then I went through a fat, awkward stage for several years, so I learned to fall back on my humor and personality when I was growing up. It's how you survive, so I think it was more of a natural progression for me, developing into comedy.

My dad was in the army so we moved around a lot and I changed schools every year and had to make new friends, and I found that if I was the funny guy I could do that easier.

Even in your darkest moments, you'll think of something that'll crack you up.

One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.

Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.

I laugh every day. There are days when my laughs are pretty hollow. Dust comes out of your mouth, and your bones make a funny sound. But I'm laughing.

Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.

Even in the depths of dreadful situations, there's usually something rather comic, or something you can laugh about afterwards, at least. So, I do look for the comedy in those things.

It's funny when you're a kid how you can acclimate to almost anything.

Let the other guys do the crybaby stuff. Go for the laughs.

The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We've all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we've all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that's a gift - to you and your audience.

The first thing that I learned - and I understood it at a really young age - was that I could get a laugh. Really early. Because my mother and father are funny.

To me, in life, if you have a sense of humor about it, that's how you deal with anything.

I try to find humor in everything.

It's how we live, making fun of ourselves.

Humour is used in struggle and solving difficult things, and I relish that tradition.

When I first started comedy, me and my friends were kids.

I was born and raised in Dallas, Texas and seasonally lived in New Orleans and Boston. Given that this was all at a tender age, I imagine I was very impressionable. I was a kid that was always moving, city to city, school to school. I adapted easily wherever I was, I knew how to blend.

If you can neither accept it or change it, try to laugh at it.