Colin Firth Quotes

I have a very dark sense of humor.

I don't really find things funny unless they're deeply tragic at the same time. I think if you're funny just for the sake of being funny, it's just frivolous nonsense. To me, all the best comic plays have been written about really serious and rather bleak things.

Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.

I'm not a particularly shiny, happy person. I'm fairly cynical, and that's what draws me to comedy.

People find the humor in life all the time. And you have to in order to make it through real life. Like, some things are tragic, but you have to laugh.

I like dark humor. I think the world is very funny and tragic, and my photographs are basically dark Jewish humor.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.

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

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

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.

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

I quite like dark humor.

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

I have a dark sense of humor.

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.

To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps.

For a comedienne, you have to have a little tragedy or a dark side, just not too much. Otherwise it's too disruptive.

Comedy is only funny when there's real pain.

Much of the best humor is found in the frequently tragic reality of human experience.

As with anything that involves emotional pain, comedy isn't too far behind. There's that element of no matter how painful something is - as long as it is not you that is going through it - it can be funny.

You can find humor in most things, and even terrible things.

I naturally think in terms of comedy whenever I see anything because tragedy is so close to comedy, so I like to add the tragedy to the comedy or a little bit of comedy to the tragedy in order to make them both feel more real to me.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration.