Rob Corddry Quotes

I try to be funny and not ignorant.

When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.

Tolerance is you saying something crazy and me smiling and saying, 'That's nice.'

I think empathy is undervalued in a lot of these comedy writers' rooms.

Let's Wrestle would rather poke fun than point fingers, even if there's a problem that needs fixing.

Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable.

I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

I always believe that funny is serious and serious is funny. You don't really need a distinction between them.

I like to make jokes; I consider myself a funny person. I just think making jokes about people who are in a situation beyond their control is not funny to them or their families.

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.

I want to be remembered as a nice person who didn't hurt people - except my ex-husbands, maybe.

I've turned arrogance into an artform, where it's so absurd that it becomes comedy. But I've never done anything to hurt anybody or steal from anyone.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way - I don't think that's exploitive.

I have begun to sympathetically understand Paul, though I don't like him much.

I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer.

Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.

Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.

Since I've written many of my books from a less-than-sympathetic viewpoint, I think that being able to see things from all sides is a useful talent.

You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.