Julio Cortazar Quotes

I don't think any movie I would do would be too serious or serious at all.

I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly.

I can't seem to escape comedy. Whenever I sit down and try to write something serious, it just doesn't work.

I love an act that makes fun of the situation, and of course makes fun of yourself. That's important, you can't take yourself too seriously.

A lot of comics just joke around, but it's just as important to get the truth out there.

An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet.

Life is too important to be taken as a joke, but too ridiculous to be taken seriously.

Journalism should be truthful and entertaining. You know, with news and important facts you can entertain people too. Have a little humor. Life isn't all that deadly all the time, but while you're having fun, tell the truth. If every word of a column is deadly serious, I can't read it. It makes me throw up.

It's true, of course, humor is very important in my life, as you know. That's the only reason for living, in fact.

The righteous one has no sense of humor.

You can only be funny if you have matters of great importance on your mind.

To me, being funny is more important than making a point, but I don't know. Most politicians are so interested in making points that they don't ... I'd rather be funny myself, and I'd rather listen to somebody with a little sense of humor.

I hate taking myself seriously. It drives me crazy!

I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.

Well," said Apollo with a brave smile. "You were right, my dear. You had everything under control! Let's go see if we boiled anyone important, shall we?

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

Here's what I really love: I love a funny story that I can tag a serious line on the end of.

There's many a true word spoken in jest.

Is everything a joke to you?” I asked. He dabbed his tongue to his lip again. “Not everything.” “Like what?” “You.

The thing that's important for me to focus on is the balancing of the tension between satisfying myself and satisfying an audience, and making something that I think is good and funny, worthwhile, small-"i" important, versus something that's going to do well.

I knew what I wanted to do when I set out. I knew that I wanted to write a book that told the story, obviously. I wanted it be comedy first, because I felt like there already had been childhood druggy stories that were very serious, and I felt that the unique thing here was that I was a comic and I could tell the story with some levity, and I have been laughing at these stories my whole life.

Learn to laugh. Seriousness is a sin, and it is a disease. Laughter has tremendous beauty, a lightness. It will bring lightness to you, and it will give you wings to fly.

Most comedians I know are quite serious, anxious people who find life rather difficult. As a consequence, they make people laugh.

Everybody's serious but me.

I think I found it difficult though to keep a straight face when we were actually working and I wasn't supposed to be laughing.