John Searles Quotes

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.

Half of me is this wacked-out comedienne who will do anything for a buck and a laugh. Well, at least for a laugh. But the other half is a lot darker, sadder and more pensive. It's the dark side that feeds the outrageousness and allows it to surface. I think that's true for anyone with comic flair.

On one level, I am a massive joker and can't take anything seriously, but on the other hand, I'm incredibly serious and a deep thinker, so I have that dichotomy within me.

I'm a people's person, believe it or not. I just have a dark side to me, which we all do.

There's two heads to every coin.

I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.

I am quite a cheerful, dark person. On the outside, I'm optimistic but I expect the worst to happen.

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

I have an incredibly dark, mysterious, witchy side and another side that's very bubbly and cheerleader-esque.

My poems... the ones that start out as jokes become these big ponderous things and the ones that start out ponderous devolve into jokes.

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 often do very serious roles, but really I am a big clown.

Unfortunately, I have two facets to my makeup, and that is both scientific and artistic. By doing medicine, I was only answering one of those sides.

In everything I write, I'm always striving to hit the right mix of light and darkness, humor and pain, fun and seriousness.

I think I appear very innocent and soft, but I'm actually very dark and edgy. It's a weird dichotomy.

At home, I'm the silliest cornball who talks way too much and wants to be quiet and left alone at the same time.

In high drama or high tragedy or anything, it's not really human unless there's some humor at the same time. And vice versa. So I guess I tend to gravitate towards projects which tread a dodgy tightrope between two things, which aren't really one or another.

I love sprinting, but I hate long-distance running. Isn't that funny?

That's what sort of fascinates me - what's funny as well as what's sad.

I'm a child of extremes.

A lot of my paintings have quite negative meanings, but painted in a bright and cheerful way.

Songwriters such as Alanis Morissette write about the constant balance of contradictions, and that's something I adhere to in my life and work.

There's a softer and harder person in everyone, depending on the time.

You walked in, laughing, tears welling confused, mingling in your throat. How can you be so many women to so many people, oh you strange girl?