Sherwood Smith Quotes

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

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.

Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.

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

Sometimes the stuff I come up with is so silly I feel like I need to apologize at the end of every one of them.

I want to talk to you and be random with you and be ridiculous with you.

Do a loony-goony dance 'Cross the kitchen floor, Put something silly in the world That ain't been there before.

Here's my advice: Go ahead and be whacky. Get into a crazy frame of mind and ask what's funny about what you're doing.

It's a dirty job being ridiculous, but I'll do it

I think comedy, so much of it comes out of the strange sort of golden instant 'cause you don't know why it's funny, but you captured it.

You can't make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody.

Things I say are sometimes silly.

So much of existence is so boring. To have little moments of stupidity is always welcome.

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.

I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things.

I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special.

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

I have a good sense of humor. I think everything we do should have whimsy in it.

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

My heroes were always Looney Toons, Robin Williams, the Three Stooges. I think everything I do is kinda funny. I think I'm sort of ridiculous.

I love goofing off and being awkward. I have always enjoyed improv.

I had this website that, at one point, I listed myself as 'actor, writer, comedian, and fart enthusiast' just because I thought that would be a really clear joke.

Now I find seriousness to be rather ridiculous.

I don't take myself seriously, because I'm obviously ludicrous.