Mark Helprin Quotes

What also helps our show is that we never take ourselves seriously.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

I think you have to have a sense of humor about every movie that you're doing. Your character needs to be relatable in a way that, even when you're doing the most bizarre things, sometimes a bit of tongue in cheek is necessary to keep up the believability of it.

In comedy you have to be willing to not take yourself seriously, you know? I take comedy really seriously, and so to take comedy seriously, you must not, you cannot, ever take yourself seriously.

I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.

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

I don't see any division between the comic and the tragic. I feel like I'm writing about serious things, and humour is one of my tools. It's not contrived, just part of my world, part of the way things are to me.

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.

Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.

Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners.

I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.

I have a lot of faith in the power of joking to make something thoughtful.

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

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

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

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

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

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

No one thought that the Disney Superpower had the ability to laugh at itself, but 'Enchanted' proved everyone wrong.

I laughed, even if I was the butt of the joke.

I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.

For a comedienne, you have to have a little tragedy or a dark side, just not too much. Otherwise it's too disruptive.

Everybody thinks I'm so serious and the dark side is very accessible to me, so of course it's a challenge to do something funny.

I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

We always have a little comedy. It's the Marvel secret sauce. I think it's what helps Marvel resonate with the audience, that, yes, we're in the joke, too.