Marina and the Diamonds Quotes

I have a very dark sense of humor.

I like a person who knows how to say something dark at a very dark moment. The darker the moment and the darker the comic, the better. Something that is so wrong on all levels.

I like to laugh at dark things.

I have a dark sense of humor.

'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.

I find heartbreaking stuff really funny.

All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

I don't really find things funny unless they're deeply tragic at the same time. I think if you're funny just for the sake of being funny, it's just frivolous nonsense. To me, all the best comic plays have been written about really serious and rather bleak things.

With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.

Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.

I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

What makes me laugh is, of course, the absurd, the horror - anything that upsets me.

Believe it or not, there's a lot of humor in 'Mad Men.' Especially in the dark moments.

Much of the best humor is found in the frequently tragic reality of human experience.

My humor is traced with dark - I've got dark patches all over the place.

I kind of find humor in everything, even to the point where it's awkward - like, the worst scenarios are the funniest things ever.

I like dark humor. I think the world is very funny and tragic, and my photographs are basically dark Jewish humor.

There are thousands of ways to make people laugh - satire, black comedy, slapstick.

I've just got a really sick sense of humour that's separate from reality.

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.