Tom Wilson Quotes

From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.

Life serves up satire. Unfortunately. Or fortunately. I don't know. You have to reel it in to drama.

Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.

I am a disaster magnet. I came home from our first anniversary vacation with jellyfish stings, a puncture wound from a wrought iron pineapple and a cork-shaped bruise in my cleavage.

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

Misfortune was my god.

It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.

I must confess, I was born at a very early age.

Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.

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 think I've been called edgy - but in all honesty, there is a safety in what I do because I'm always the idiot. Unless you're just listening to buzz words and not taking into account the context of the situation, you see I'm always the ignoramus.

I don't like doing stand-up, because I don't like standing up.

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?'

Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier.

I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

If you examine any aspect of the human condition long enough, you really do have to start laughing at it. Because the business of being human is kind of ridiculous.

You get annoyed about things in real life, and then the tragic thing is that while you are moaning on the awful injustice and suffering of something, something grimly comic will then strike you about it, like a parasite feeding off the misery of the world.

Woody Allen's sense of humour has always attracted me, and I love the way he can make life so meaningful and yet show us what a farce it can be at the same time.

Every once in awhile, we all get a bad hand dealt to us.

Sometimes terrible things just happen to the wrong people.

To write an autobiography of Groucho Marx would be as asinine as to read an autobiography of Groucho Marx.