Austin Aries Quotes

I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter.

The idea is to improve somebody's day. That's how I've always viewed my job. I'm a distraction therapist. I make people's problems go away for just a little bit.

If I can make people forget whatever they're dealing with for an hour and a half, two hours every night, that's nice.

Every once in a while, we need to watch something that makes us feel.

Everyone is so occupied that they hardly get time to laugh their fullest. So, I feel blessed that through the medium of cinema, I can bring a smile on someone's face.

Music is entertainment, and we need that in order not to fall into the pit of despair.

I think that's why I love music so much; I think if I didn't have music, I would be in a bad position.

Since we are made up of comedians and filmmakers and writers and improvisers, we have the unique opportunity to bring joy to people who are sometimes buried in their own lives or are subjected to the bullshit that clinic workers are subjected to every day.

When the king gets depressed, he doesn't call for his wife. He doesn't call for the cook. He calls for the court jester.

The mission of my company is to bring three things to the world through entertainment: joy, happiness, and change. We must believe our precious time is being used to make a product worth more than anything else we could be doing.

Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.

I laugh very hard at work every day.

The show has become my therapy.

Flowers heal me. Tulips make me happy. I keep myself surrounded by them as soon as they start coming to the island from Canada, and after that when they come from the fields in La Connor, not far from where I live.

Music can get me through anything.

When I was going through sad times, I'd watch 'Cheers' at the end of the day to make me feel better.

There's nothing wrong with making people laugh. We all need to laugh. Sometimes I get all these laughs inside of me, and there's no place to let 'em out.

My fans were probably the most therapeutic thing for me.

Comedy is saving me.

If you're going through a difficult time, and there's a piece of music that speaks to you - be it musically or lyrically or both - you are almost always able to access that music. You're always able to sit down with it.

All I would say is that when I've been very down or having kind of a tough time in my life, certain films or pieces of music or books have changed that. They've taken me out of a dark place and put me into a more positive one. And I think that if we can do that for people, then it's certainly worth doing.

I just want the audience to have a wonderful, happy feeling inside them and leave with big smiles on their faces.

For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet.

If you are having a hard week, turn on one of my songs. Some people are here for different things in life. My job is to make you forget about your troubles.

I was sad and in a dark place, and I turned to a hobby to sort of take me out of that.