Quotes about "Humor & Comedy"

From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do. ”

A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times. ”

The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock. ”

I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it's not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days. ”

I'm going through life's cycles at an alarmingly fast pace, but my persona has a Peter Pan quality: he doesn't age. ”

I don't think I've ever written a poem whose intention was just to be funny. I've written poems that start out funny and often shift into something more serious. ”

When I write, I'm not trying to be funny. It's the way I look at the world. ”

There's something very authentic about humor, when you think about it. Anybody can pretend to be serious. But you can't pretend to be funny. ”

Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. It's a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. ”

Discovering Samuel Beckett in college was a big deal for me. I realized you could be very funny and very dark at the same time. ”