Dorothy Parker Quotes

New York - The city where the people from Oshkosh look at the people from Dubuque in the next theater seats and say "These New Yorkers don't dress any better than we do.

It's good to be back in New York. I have lived here ten years. I'm originally from Indiana. I know what most of you are thinking: Indiana: Mafia. But the fact of the matter is where I grew up there was something very similar to the Mafia: 4-H.

I hope I can now use my ability to communicate, without being too precious or serious. It's good to have some levity, even as you're facing some really dark times, to mix it up a bit.

People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.

Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.

I always felt people who took themselves seriously were kind of boring.

Even when I'm being funny, I'm deadly serious.

Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified. 'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it.

I am serious about not being serious.

I never took the work less than serious, my work ethic is ingrained in me. But I've always had a sense of humor about myself.

Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts.

I laughed derisively. "For goodness' sake, don't start gargling now. This is serious." "I was laughing." "Oh, were you? Well, I'm glad to see you taking it in this merry spirit." "Derisively," I explained.

It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.

It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

The really authentic thing about humor is that anyone can pretend to be serious. Anyone who's ever had a job - in fact, we're pretending to be serious now, more or less.

Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great.

Yeah, I love living in New York, man, and people who live in New York, we wear that fact like a badge right on our sleeve because we know that fact impresses everybody! I was in Vietnam. So what? I live in New York!

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.

Don't kid yourself. Global warming is no joke. Here's how serious global warming has gotten to be in the United States. In this country global warming is so bad, we are now actually starting to warm up to Barry Bonds.

Everywhere outside New York City is Bridgeport, Connecticut.

You have to have a serious streak in you, or you can't see the funny side of the other fellow.

The world is a very serious and, at times, very sad place - but at other times it is all such a joke.

Never knowingly be serious. Rule 27.

I love comedies. I take comedy very seriously as a form. It's a serious form, involving a certain way of looking at life, specifically the painful aspects of life. I get asked, "How can you have such failures in your films?" Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.