Eddie Marsan Quotes

Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

Adding comedy into what I do is just my natural approach. It's how I approach anything that I find tricky or daunting, because it's like putting syrup in your medicine, and it just makes it easier to go down.

I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous.

Humor is my default mode.

I love down-and-dirty and grit. But I do think that my favorite dramas are ones that are dark comedies because I think that the only way the audience and the actor can really go as dark and deep as you may want to go is if there's some levity added to it.

Humor is the only way to tell a story. Especially the dark ones.

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

I have a really dark, rich, thick sense of humor.

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

I take a lot of pride in managing to be funny without having a victim at the end of my joke. I laugh at a really dark joke as much as the next person, but my jokes, I feel, don't have to hurt anybody to be really funny.

I like a person who knows how to say something dark at a very dark moment. The darker the moment and the darker the comic, the better. Something that is so wrong on all levels.

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.

Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.

If possible, be funny.

A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious.

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

I am a passionate believer that comedy is a way of tackling some of the most dark and difficult aspects of being a human being.

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.

I provide a little comic relief.

I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.

I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it's never at the expense of the other guy.

There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better.