Berkeley Breathed Quotes

Its not just a smile of momentary happiness. When it disappears from my face, it will stay with me.

The idea behind doing comedies is that you go home a little happier.

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

I think for me, the thing that gets me in the right mindset is just watching something funny, something light, something that makes me feel good. Regardless of what it is - when you feel good, when you feel upbeat, creativity flows!

I love films that make you feel good when you come out and, in my opinion, there's not enough of them these days.

The best fiction stays with you and changes you.

Americans like optimism, and 'Once' walks a tightrope: you feel uplifted at the end even if you're crying.

I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.

It's fun to watch a show that you can watch with any member of your family, and you're going to laugh, and you're going to be moved, and you're going to have fun, rather than this dark, brooding, cold, 'purely procedural show.'

If you're doing a musical, you should be out to give the audience something special, emotional, an uplifting feeling, something that stays with them. And you're not going to do that by bumming them out.

I could go on Twitter, Instagram, and literally, my soul will be lifted by things that I see. It just makes me really happy.

In the end, the thing that really stays with you is not that you were clever enough to connect a sketch to another sketch, but what really sticks with you is when you just have an incredible moment happen, or execute a really funny idea.

People like to have fun and they like to laugh. And when you laugh, it's much easier to convince people and they laugh with you, rather than being angry. And I think laughter's always nice and I've always liked it.

You start to find a rhythm and usually if it makes me laugh or comment in the editing room then I knew that's what's going to happen in the audience. That first reaction is usually the right reaction.

Faith and joy are the ascensive forces of song.

Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as well.

Instagram what you think is funny and exciting and try not to include any animal abuse!

Well, besides being entertained, I’d like to move them emotionally. I mean I really want to uplift them. I want to look down at the audience, and this is personal experiences now I’m going to tell you. It’s like you look down at the audience and see people smiling, crying, hugging each other. I want them on their way home to feel empowered like they can do anything.

There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border that we cross.

Everybody needs to laugh and have fun and feel good.

It's so great to be able to make people laugh, because this is so often how we get our selves back.

I have enjoyed the happiness of the world; I have loved.

Comedies are doing well because I think people want to laugh and not think about everything for a little bit.

The game will fade one day. I realize that success is one thing; impact is another. I live to impact people.

I think of Mercy Watson like a superball; there's a bouncy kind of optimism to her stories. She allows me to play, and she makes me laugh. Hopefully readers feel the same way.