Joanne Kelly Quotes

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

I think everything benefits from a little comedy. The worst thing to me is to see a great drama or a great thriller with no laughs.

Mike and I like a balance of tones. We never set out to make an overtly silly show or an overly serious dramatic show.

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

Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.

So you don't have to take us too seriously; I mean, we're already intimidating enough on stage.

We take the show very seriously, but we don't take ourselves seriously.

I'm kind of the antithesis of a comedian. People that don't like me will agree with that.

You can do gross-out until the cows come home but if there isn't something to balance it, then it's not going to work at all.

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.

The completely irreverent tone was the thing that won me over about the first 'Deadpool' movie.

I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

Let's take fashion seriously, but not ourselves so seriously. Or reverse that, maybe don't take fashion so seriously, but take yourself seriously. Actually, don't take yourself seriously, that's for sure. So, yeah, take fashion seriously, just not yourself.

'Star Trek' tends to take itself a little too seriously. They were either very dramatic shows, or if we did a humorous show, it was always a little like, 'Oh, we're doing humor on 'Star Trek,'' especially on the original series.

I think the best dramas are as funny as possible and the best comedies have, underneath them, real substance.

Basic Instinct 2' is camp, not because it takes itself too seriously, nor because it sends itself up, but because we are not sure quite how seriously it wants us to take it.

I think 'Deadpool' worked because of what it was. I think 'Deadpool' worked because it was funny. I think 'Deadpool' worked because it didn't take itself seriously. That's why it worked as an R-rated film.

People are complex, and I think it's a huge element of what I do, because you have to balance out the fact that you talk about quite serious things with a sense of irony and tongue-in-cheek humor. That's my personality as well.

I feel like with comedy, the crazy things that happen are never serious you know? Like, rubble being poured onto you in drama would be something that's absolutely terrible, but in a comedy it's absolutely terrible but so funny.

I think you gotta have some humor [in your story]. People gotta have a moment to laugh and feel that it's not taken 100% serious. That's important.

You have to have a serious streak in you, or you can't see the funny side of the other fellow.

Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?

I love drama - I would say more than I even love comedy - but I like in One Mississippi that I can go from a very moving moment to a Willy Wonka tube up my ass. I like the silliness as much as I like drama.

I think that you can make a drama and have it be intensely funny, and vice versa.

We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.