Serious Situations Quotes

I wouldn't, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I'd learnt that when you're in the serious situations, you've got to try to stay calm. Because that's the way you get out of them.

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.

There's a certain gravity in Stokes, due to the situations I have to handle.

As I understand from the real military personnel who I've had the opportunity to speak to over the last few years, humor is very much used to diffuse stress. I think that if they were to keep it as serious as the situations often are, there would be a lot more nervous breakdowns.

I figure, oftentimes the best way in is through humor, and you can deal with serious situations a lot easier, or at least bring up the conversation.

The stories I love the most are where the author has a lot of empathy for everyone. The author loves their characters and takes their situations really seriously, and you feel like you're just dropped into a different world.

There are some situations in life that are simply not funny, and there's nothing funny about them, but they're rare, and they don't last all that long.

I don't find the characters I've played funny. The characters are actually taking their situations very seriously.

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.

You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out.

I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But they're also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset.