Romany Malco Quotes

Tension is all about, 'Why is this taking so long?' The interesting thing about that is that it's also the tension of comedy. The tension of drama and comedy is similar, and that's why usually you can get a big laugh in a really tense moment because people need that release.

I use humor as a way to digest anything.

I hate comics who look at comedy as therapy. But at least it gets things out of my system in a funny way.

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

Sometimes laughter is the only way to process tough times

And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

I can't say that I fully relate to things that I play. Sometimes it's nice to spend half the day crying; then you don't have to do it in real life.

Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.

I've always been one of those people that, if I am angry, I just hold it in. And I always kind of, like, wrote it in a song and put it aside for myself because it helps me get it out. It's almost like exercising; it's almost like that for me.

I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?

Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.

There is a guilty pleasure in being rude and knowing that it's acting rather than you. But you get the same release as if you were being rude in life.

The more pain that's referenced or implied, the deeper the laugh can be because the laughter heals the pain. So you've got to have the pain, and then you have the laugh.

Part of doing stand-up is to get things off your chest. It's a bit like being in a psychiatrist's chair - but more enjoyable.

I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

Comedy's my outlet for my ridiculous emotions.

Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at them and destroy the power of unsayable things, rather than refusing to acknowledge them.

Comedy is free therapy. And if it's done well, the audience and the comic take turns being the doctor as well as the patient.

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

A lot of people, especially Japanese, come to the theater to have a good cry.

Theatricality - that's where you get catharsis. The Greeks went to see drama because they felt like this wasn't happening to them.

Making music has always made me happy. When I go through a situation, the best way for me to get over it is to bundle up all of my emotions about it, put it in a little shell, create something, and then let it go.

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

There are a lot of questions I keep asking myself about why I do comedy. I guess I laugh to keep from crying. And I guess if you ever get me crying, I might not stop. This is the way I look at tragedy or else I'll cry.