Mary Kay Blakely Quotes

When I'm funny is when I'm angriest.

A lot of my comedy is to do with being angry, then finding a way to channel that.

Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away.

Comedy defends the commonplace; tragedy explodes it.

I think that sometimes only comedians can reach the peaks of tragedy.

Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

Comedy makes me soar, and comedy is very serious business.

Violence is part of everybody's life, whether you like or express it or not. My work utilises all the energies that I have, and part of it is violent, and I'd rather it be out than in.

The only weapon I've got is comedy

I've always thought that comedy was just another dramatic expression.

Comedy is a noble art.

Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward - and since I can start thinking and striving again that much sooner.

I think comedy is an angry art form; it's an outsider art form. Anger and comedy are really connected. If I'm angry about something I will try to think about something funny about it to lighten the load of the anger and cope with the anger.

Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.

Comedy can simultaneously allow you to dive headfirst into the world's pain and escape it.

I fell so hard for the theater. I knew it was a place where you can sort out your life.

I think funny comes from tragedy and time. And I think that's where I get it. I'm able to take things that are serious and sad, and turn it into funny. In all honesty - this is after a lot of therapy - I think that, you know, I need love from something, and so now, I find it through performing.

I'm inspired by making people laugh at subjects that should make them cry.

That's not precisely what I had in mind." Jamie, I had found out by accident a few days previously, had never mastered the art of winking one eye. Instead, he blinked solemnly, like a large red owl.

As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.

People ask what I am really trying to do with humor. The answer is, "I'm getting even

the true art of the gods is the comic. The comic is a condescension of the divine to the world of man; it is the sublime vision, which cannot be studied, but must ever be celestially granted. In the comic the gods see their own being reflected as in a mirror, and while the tragic poet is bound by strict laws, they will allow the comic artist a freedom as unlimited as their own.

I actually feel that all drama has an element of comedy in it. A great deal of that I learned from writers like Chekhov who called his plays his comedy even when they touch on tragedy.

I find comedy to be one of the highest of the art forms.

Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.