Michael Che Quotes

A lot of my comedy is to do with being angry, then finding a way to channel that.

I have a lot of aggression in me that needs to come out in a not-very-precise or articulate way.

Even in my comedies, I don't take anger as a joke. I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it. One of the things I like about a character: I always think it's fascinating when a character can turn on a dime and go from one emotion to another. I like watching that.

I'm almost always trying to be funny, even when I'm on my own. I think it's the desire to channel my anger and frustration into something more positive than sitting at home being unpleasant.

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

I'm generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.

Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.

Everybody has to write out of rage sometimes.

I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.

When I'm funny is when I'm angriest.

I always channeled what I felt emotionally into skiing - my insecurities, my anger, my disappointment. Skiing was always my outlet, and it worked.

I think I cry when I'm angry. I let it go that way.

There's nothing wrong with making people laugh. We all need to laugh. Sometimes I get all these laughs inside of me, and there's no place to let 'em out.

It's not necessarily bad that you have angst or you have anger - it's what you do with it, how you interpret it into something profoundly moving.

I was being very bad because I didn't know how to express myself. Music gave me an outlet to express myself and channel that anger.

A lot of people are upset when you work out your anger issues, but there's a big industry for music which is furious and angry because, in my opinion, the world is looking for a justification to feel the same way.

All the energy of their frustration and fear going into their laughter.

Studies show that aggressively expressing anger doesn't relieve anger but amplifies it. On the other hand, not expressing anger often allows it to disappear without leaving ugly traces.

Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.

Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What makes us laugh is a mystery - an involuntary response.

Humor is the harmony of the heart.

A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.

Often the ideas in the show start out as ideas that make you laugh - outrageous "what if" ideas. I wanted an outlet for doing those.

Making people laugh is one of the highest achievements you can have. And when you can make someone laugh and cry, alternatively, as Chaplin does - now that's the highest of all personal achievements. I don't know that I aim for it, but I recognize it as the supreme goal.