Owen King Quotes

I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me.

I can't not write funny. It's literally the only way I know how to do it.

First and foremost, I just want to write comedy.

I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to them, and that's why they're more popular than other TV comedies. There's a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling.

Sure, I am funny and have a good sense of humor. Mostly, though, I just tell the truth. The internal dialogue people have in their heads - I just write it.

I'm a humor writer, so I don't always present myself in the best light.

I think comedy has to come from your authentic point of view.

Everyone says comedy is really hard, but with 'The Office' the naturalism was everything so it didn't feel like doing comedy; it just felt like doing a really offensive character who thought he was funny.

Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.

Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.

I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.

I always try to attack the most honest issues I can in my comedy.

I would be an idiot to say comedy is easy, but it does come naturally. It never feels forced.

My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.

Comedy is drama. I think that if your characters are feeling something that is very real, then they have to respond in a way that feels real to them, and some situations, the only response you could possibly have is to respond in a way that's so extreme that people are going to laugh.

I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view.

I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.

I get just as much of a thrill out of constructing a good sentence that gets a laugh at the end as I do from a joke.

I think of myself as more of a comic person. I don't know about a comic actor.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

I definitely prefer working in comedy over drama, but at the same time, when it comes to comedy, I tend to prefer comedies that have a great sense of truth to them and that come from an honest place.

I write my songs because I've lived them.

My whole life I try to make into a comedy, so it would be nice to see that onscreen.