Rachel Weisz Quotes

I like situational comedy when people are being completely serious and yet you can find something extremely funny, not jokes.

I have to be entertained by what I'm writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatological quality. If these characters can entertain me, then I feel like I can deal with the darker or more serious stuff.

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

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

I love comedy that seems kind of a little bit absurd.

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

I like really stupid comedies.

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

The whole point about laughter is it's like mercury: you can't catch it, you can't catch what motivates it - that's why it's funny.

Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.

I have a good sense of humor. I think everything we do should have whimsy in it.

Sometimes I am so dry that people don't know I'm kidding and think I'm being serious. I enjoy this because their reactions are often funny.

Funny is when you're serious.

I think in life, the sense of humor and comedy always exists.

Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

One of the funny things in life to me is a guy who takes himself very seriously.

When people are taking something extremely seriously, that's the time to take out the pig's bladder.

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.

Now I find seriousness to be rather ridiculous.

I think everything benefits from a little comedy. The worst thing to me is to see a great drama or a great thriller with no laughs.

I think I was born with a natural way of looking at something and trying to find the ways in which it was odd or funny, Even in the sad or angry stuff, I was, 'Well, but where is the funny part of this?'

Sometimes WRONG is worth the FUNNY!

It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously.