Christoph Waltz Quotes

If you play comedic scenes like they're really serious, then it's so much more funny than if you're going for a laugh.

I have an incredibly dry sense of humor.

Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.

I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.

When you're doing comedy, you're not trying to be funny. I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously. I think when people are winking, it becomes slapstick, it becomes something else.

It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can.

Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.

I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

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

Sometimes I am so dry that people don't know I'm kidding and think I'm being serious. I enjoy this because their reactions are often funny.

Funny is when you're serious.

I like situational comedy when people are being completely serious and yet you can find something extremely funny, not jokes.

Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.

I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.

There is nothing that is so serious that you can't also see its comic side. Comedy is a way of talking about the most serious things.

My brand of humor is trying to play the situation as real as possible because I'm not the type of guy who is a joke a minute.

I think the humor, when applied in the right amount, only serves to intensify the other emotions in a given song; it highlights them, makes them stand out.

Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.

Ironic things are interesting.

Comedy is a very delicate business, especially comedies that sort of attempt to do things in an honest way and in a very naturalistic way the way that 'No Strings Attached' is.

I have a very dry sense of humor.

The more serious the situation, the funnier the comedy can be. The greatest comedy plays against the greatest tragedy. Comedy is a red rubber ball and if you throw it against a soft, funny wall, it will not come back. But if you throw it against the hard wall of ultimate reality, it will bounce back and be very lively. Very, very few people understand this.