Jon Lovitz Quotes

I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred orange and scrub the floor.

When you are totally depressed, you should try giggling. Just make yourself laugh. Force yourself to laugh.

To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.

I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.

When I am stressed, my No. 1 reliever is my music.

I was having a bad day, and my friend said, 'Go wash your hair.' I thought it was really silly - but it made me feel so much better. It might be a small thing, but it works. Washing it off and starting over.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

I try to cope with everything through humor.

My ideology was, if I just make very happy music, very happy music, then people will forget about whatever their problems are. I will forget about my problems.

I reach for funny books all the time to help me get through life.

Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying or getting overly angry or to maintain control.

Anything that can keep me distracted and from my own brain, it's good.

The anxiety I get more when I'm not working. So actually work, for me, takes away my anxiety, and doing live TV, in that moment when you're consumed by something else, it takes away all of my thoughts. It distracts you!

Before, if I'd had a stressful day, I'd go to meet my friends in the pub and have a moan. Now I go to yoga.

It isn't that I don't tackle issues; it's just that they're secondary to giving somebody an escape route from the banal routine of everyday life.

It just seems to me that the world's kind of a mess, and the more messy it gets, the more interested I am in escapist fare. Having a good time is something that isn't about the war in Iraq or the Asian flu or the Kyoto protocol - things that are horribly depressing to consider in our real lives. I'm eager to get away from them.

How do I cope with stress? I clean and organize.

No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds.

I'd go mad if I didn't have things to make me laugh.

Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.

I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.

If I have a rough day, and I'm angry, I'll just go into Kirk Douglas and throw over a table. And when I need to lift my spirits, Kermit can always do the trick.

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

I try to only read light things when I'm working on my books, and in the evenings I watch a lot of mindless TV. I have to break up the 'dark,' or I wouldn't be a very happy person.

I put a limited time on the blues. I say, 'I allowed myself to be blue for four hours, and now I'm going to stop.'