Kurt Braunohler Quotes

I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'

Life is dramatic and comedic at times. Sometimes in the most dramatic situations, there is comedy. And good comedy comes from a sense of reality.

I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones. And I thought that if the point were demonstrated in a situation as extreme as that in a concentration camp, my book might gain a hearing. I therefore felt responsible for writing down what I had gone through, for I thought it might be helpful to people who are prone to despair.

I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce - my main thrust was the body and its functions and malfunctions - the absurdity of the thing.

No matter how ruined man and his world may seem to be, and no matter how terrible man's despair may become, as long as he continues to be a man his very humanity continues to tell him that life has a meaning.

The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.

It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning

Will Ferrell is probably the funniest comic actor, certainly of my generation. I am a huge, huge Will Ferrell fan. I'm not a huge comedy buff, truthfully. What I find funny is either something unbelievably stupid, like Dumb And Dumber or Airplane!, where the jokes are just so stupid and pointless, or something like The Office or The Comeback, where the humor is in the excruciating awkwardness of a situation. Stella kind of explores both of those, stupidity and awkwardness.

I love Twinkies, and the reason I am saying that is because we are all supposed to think of reasons to live.

Comedy is about flaws anyway... There's a lot of humor in the dark areas of life.

I guess what I'm passionate about is, I see so many things that I find that there's no real solution to, and you're only here for such a brief moment in time, even if you live to be a hundred years old. Yet, what happens within that time frame? So many things happen.

Comedy is very strange to me and I don't fully understand it's purpose or function.

It takes a surprisingly large amount of intelligence to be a professional idiot.

I was like, what the hell is my life coming to? I'm a trained actor! I've done Shakespeare and here I am having farting contests with an imaginary dog!

The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny.

Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.

Winfield goes back to the wall. He hits his head on the wall and it rolls off! It's rolling all the way back to second base! This is a terrible thing for the Padres!

If we live inside a bad joke, it is up to us to learn, at best and worst, to tell it well.

I knew nothing about farce until I read Puce a l'Oreille, and had no idea what a deadly serious business it is.

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

Life should be taken ironically; otherwise, it becomes a tragedy.

If you lose your purpose ... it's like you're broken.

I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

My life is absolutely meaningless. When I consider the different periods into which it falls, it seems like the word Schnur in the dictionary, which means in the first place a string, in the second, a daughter-in-law. The only thing lacking is that the word Schnur should mean in the third place a camel, in the fourth, a dust-brush.