George R. R. Martin Quotes

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

I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.

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

It's a wonderful thing to be able to make fun of yourself and to do it in a way that sort of preserves your dignity but, at the same time, lets you play the theater of the absurd.

We have to be able to poke fun at ourselves.

I think it's hilarious when middle-aged white men try to take themselves seriously. It makes me laugh.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

I don't take myself seriously. Others should take me seriously, I don't.

By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it.

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.

Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.

No one will ever accuse James Carville of taking himself seriously.

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in the next episode.

I've always had a sick sense of humor, and I've always wanted that to permeate the music because I don't take myself seriously. I take the music seriously, but I know I'm not God's gift to anyone except my mom.

If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.

Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with 'Community,' the joke is always on.

I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously; I find that a very tedious attitude.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.

Enough jokes on me. We need to do more jokes on all of them. I thought this was a press dinner where I get to make fun of the press.

Cartoons are ridicule and satire by definition. A negative attitude is the nature of the art.

The Valley is a place that takes itself too seriously, and it has yet to be properly lampooned. So it's time for a wedgie.

I exaggerate all our selves, our beings. I make fun of everything: of our life and what we are. But I don't tell jokes, really. I just exaggerate life, and it comes out funny.