Karen Russell Quotes

I've worn black today, because I've heard so often that it's supposed to be slimming. But instead I am this sphere of darkness submarining through the halls.

I naturally think in terms of comedy whenever I see anything because tragedy is so close to comedy, so I like to add the tragedy to the comedy or a little bit of comedy to the tragedy in order to make them both feel more real to me.

I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.

Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

Weirdly, my nickname was Lady. I didn't get Stretch, or Stilts, or Spider Legs - I got Lady. I guess I was always a bit ladylike.

There's a fine line between comedy and the darkest place ever.

There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.

I'm not a particularly shiny, happy person. I'm fairly cynical, and that's what draws me to comedy.

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

I'm really 95 percent Mr. Rogers, and only 5 percent Oscar the Grouch.'

I do like dating cynics - they tend to be incredibly funny.

I don't fancy myself as a very sarcastic person in real life.

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.

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

I'm actually a sci-fi nerd on the inside; I just happen to be symmetrically put together on the outside.

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

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

'War on Everyone,' I think... the script was hilarious to me, but it's very dark, dark humor. It's super dark.

I've always been into self-dramatization. I intend to live forever.

Comedy is the difference between how you see a person and how they see themselves.

All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the bread line - right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.

I think all good drama is funny. All the best drama is ultimately very funny. Life is funny. You can't have any honest treatise on life without bumping into some humor.

People like my voice, which is funny because all my life my family has joked about my nasal voice.