Isabel Gillies Quotes

Life is tragic but it's equally comic.

When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.

I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels - smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful.

Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny.

Apparently I'm introspective... levelheaded... but at the same time, absolutely insane.

I have so many moments. I am extremely passionate about life and at the same time, I'm always depressed, so everything's always happening at the same time for me. It's the best day and the worst day too.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.

I don't really find things funny unless they're deeply tragic at the same time. I think if you're funny just for the sake of being funny, it's just frivolous nonsense. To me, all the best comic plays have been written about really serious and rather bleak things.

Life is such a tragicomedy.

Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

Life can be dramatic and funny all in the same day.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.

I definitely prefer working in comedy over drama, but at the same time, when it comes to comedy, I tend to prefer comedies that have a great sense of truth to them and that come from an honest place.

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.

I think I have a pattern of nice and lovely and then dark and twisted.

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

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

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

I never write anything without humor, just because I like humor, but at the same time, it is a way for anything fantastical to become relatable.

Out of all things bad, something good. Out of all things good, something bad.

Our everyday lives exist with comedy and tragedy next to each other.

I'm a walking contradiction. I am funny that way.