Kelsey Grammer Quotes

I always try to attack the most honest issues I can in my comedy.

Comedy is just honesty. Whether things are going well or bad.

I think all good drama is funny. All the best drama is ultimately very funny. Life is funny. You can't have any honest treatise on life without bumping into some humor.

You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.

I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.

I definitely prefer working in comedy over drama, but at the same time, when it comes to comedy, I tend to prefer comedies that have a great sense of truth to them and that come from an honest place.

Sure, I am funny and have a good sense of humor. Mostly, though, I just tell the truth. The internal dialogue people have in their heads - I just write it.

A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it.

It has to come from a truthful place in order to be funny.

I have no desire to get on a soapbox or be preachy. I don't think comedy needs to be 'brave' or 'important.'

I'm a funny guy. I want people to laugh. I laugh at myself, I make fun of myself. But at the end of the day everything that I say has a message in it.

You have to be so honest in comedy.

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

I think comedy has to come from a real place. It has to come from an honest place.

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

Anybody can make jokes. But unless they come from conviction, and there's truth in them, you haven't nailed it. They aren't as funny as they could be, and they don't make a point.

Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

Jerry Seinfeld is amazing in many ways, not the least of them his ability to find humor, and convincing us to find it, too, in the million-and-two details about modern life that under different circumstances might send us into paroxysms of rage.

You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.