Quotes about "Humor & Comedy"

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. ”

Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political. ”

Describing the person I am would best be through music. When I'm up on stage and I'm singing my heart out, I am always reminded of life's best things. ”

It's so funny, I'm always stealing from Moliere, and nobody ever notices. I steal from him willy-nilly. ”

Some people think big audiences are crass and that, say, a comedy that appeals to a wide audience is pandering. Other people would argue that you could say that about Moliere. ”

So much of what passes for conversation today is degraded. It's either about one-upmanship, or dreary trivia. Even the cut and thrust of wit and bons mots is a form of bedazzlement designed to stop conversations dead rather than broaden them. ”

If you don't infuse humor into a subject matter, no matter how dark, the audience can't accept the message of a film. It closes them down. Humor can open them up. ”

If you don't have comedy in a movie, you don't have a movie. ”

On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away. ”

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire. ”