Melina Matsoukas Quotes

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

Humor is to get us over terrible things.

You learn to laugh at yourself, and you also lean on comedy as a crutch to kind of take the edge off because comedians often are self-deprecating, and they cross lines that they shouldn't. Stuff like that brings a smile to my face every once in a while when needed.

I realized that I really enjoy writing comedy, and how important comedy is when you feel like total crap.

Comedy is a necessity to get through life with the fewest scars. Humor is the best antidote to help relieve all struggles.

Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.

Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.

If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die.

I had enough therapy to know when I broke it down, it became clearer to me: Yes, comedy was kind of a cleansing thing for me to do.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

Comedy gigs are there because you are all in acceptance that the world is not the way it should be. You have to give yourself a break; otherwise, you would sit crying in a darkened room.

I use humor as a way to digest anything.

If I can make myself laugh about something that I should be crying about, that's pretty good.

Comedy is a coping mechanism, and it helps us stay alive.

Life is tough, and if we don't laugh, we're going to - our head will explode.

I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to bad troubles like crime.

A sense of humor is an escape valve for the pressures of life.

Laughter is the only thing that'll cut trouble down to a size where you can talk to it.

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.

Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.

My experience is to deal with things through humor.

Humor is an amazing way to talk people down off a ledge.

If you don't laugh, you're going to cry and people are crying. That's why I guess you have lots of people like comedians to keep us laughing.

Within any drama in anyone's life, there's always a way to find the humor in it. Without humor no one cares about whatever drama is going on.