Christopher Lloyd Quotes

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

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.

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.

In the world of 'Tim and Eric,' everything is big and ridiculous and absurd.

I like being absurd. Being silly.

I like dark humor. My favorite movie of all time is 'Harold and Maude.'

'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.

I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention,' it would be funny.

There are movies that I love tonally, that I would love to emulate. Anything from Wes Anderson or the Coen brothers is right in my wheelhouse, as something that I would aspire to. I love that kind of indie, fun, colorful, funny, sweet, heartfelt but dark film.

Believe it or not, there's a lot of humor in 'Mad Men.' Especially in the dark moments.

Laughable

I love to play it. I think it's funny. It's always been funny to me. Somebody who's large and in charge but totally wrong-headed.

'War on Everyone,' I think... the script was hilarious to me, but it's very dark, dark humor. It's super dark.

I'm a little bit twisted, so what makes me laugh the hardest doesn't necessarily make other people laugh.

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

You can get away with a lot as long as it has a silly edge to it.

I like keeping people guessing. I like to have fun with them wondering if I'm sane or not.

I find heartbreaking stuff really funny.

I love down-and-dirty and grit. But I do think that my favorite dramas are ones that are dark comedies because I think that the only way the audience and the actor can really go as dark and deep as you may want to go is if there's some levity added to it.

I just love well-organized, very serious nonsense.

Very few people took sordid things and made comedies out of them.

Jill Eisenstadt's comic second novel, 'Kiss Out,' is a work of such extravagant wackiness, eccentricity, and exuberance that any attempt to squeeze it into the confines of a simple plot summary seems doomed to failure and is possibly pointless.