Richard Simmons Quotes

Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

Funny is when you're serious.

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.

I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

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

Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element works as a surprise. It is unexpected and energizing.

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.

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

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.

They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up.

People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it's a way of pulling people in and not scaring them off. I think a lot of the funny stuff, underneath it, there's a deep anxiety going on.

I think that there's a fine line between comedy and drama.

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

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.

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

I think Rush have always had this reputation, particularly to non-fans, of being an ultra-serious and cerebral group when, in fact, the reverse is true. We don't take ourselves seriously at all. Sure, we take our music seriously, but that's altogether different.

It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.

I can really stir up a conversation. Every time I go to a meeting or a casting, I try to make it as light and funny as I can. I'm always making really awkward jokes. You have to make life fun and not take it too seriously. I may look like I'm very serious and into my work, but if you knew me, I'm just a jokester.

I like a man with a nice, self-deprecating sense of humour.

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

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

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