Vaclav Havel Quotes

Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age. Humor has a tremendous place in this sordid world. It's more than just a matter of laughing. If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance.

I don't take myself or the species too seriously. You have to laugh at everything.

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

Comedy exists to laugh at things that aren't laughable. But isn't it? That's what separates us from the animals. We laugh.

I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.

The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.

In comedy you have to be willing to not take yourself seriously, you know? I take comedy really seriously, and so to take comedy seriously, you must not, you cannot, ever take yourself seriously.

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.

I love comedy because I can laugh at myself. I don't take myself too seriously.

Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

I have to be entertained by what I'm writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatological quality. If these characters can entertain me, then I feel like I can deal with the darker or more serious stuff.

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.

The energy in a comedy is very serious. Somebody said comedy is a tragedy plus time. When you have a tragedy, for example, like this, like, 'We're going to die,' and you have time, like, five hours to die, it becomes a comedy.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets; you may not find something to laugh about immediately.

No one thought that the Disney Superpower had the ability to laugh at itself, but 'Enchanted' proved everyone wrong.

I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.

There was a lot about the military that I thought was pretty silly, but these cartoons weren't meant to take a poke at anybody or anything. They were meant to make people laugh.