Mila Kunis Quotes

In my deepest parts of sadness, I'm always making a joke or being sarcastic.

Humor is my default mode.

I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy.

I try to cope with everything through humor.

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

If I feel vulnerable, I get angry.

Everybody laughs all the time, and some of the worst things that happen make you laugh 'cause it's a defense isn't it, I suppose.

All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.

I'll see something awful on the street and I'll come home and say to my boyfriend, "I just saw the funniest thing on the street." It's a stance. It's the way I was born, or the way I was damaged.

Denial can be a pathology or a survival mechanism - and sometimes it's both.

Whenever she felt like crying, she would instead become angry—at someone else or at herself—which meant that it was rare for her to shed tears.

Irony is a great tool to deal with things. It's an intellectualization, a way to go above things, which can work.

I cannot do confrontation. You know that fight or flight thing? I'm flight. I just don't want the argument.

Sometimes when things are way too big and I can't control it, I do sort of a weird thing where I kind of check out a little bit. It's all about self-preservation for me.

'Johnny' was a coping mechanism who could take those things which could have ordinarily destroyed me, by tweaking my past and throwing it back out there, getting laughs from things that would have otherwise upset me.

I think we make fun of the things that scare us the most.

I tend to deal with most issues with humor... always have and always will.

I'm kind of emotionally dyslexic, and when I feel vulnerable or nervous, I laugh.

It's been a very strong force for me over the years. I don't know exactly why. For some people, fear can be a very useful thing. They can use it to recognise there's something missing, and heal themselves. But fear can also destroy some people. I think I'm the first type of person. I'm pretty anxious, always thinking 'what if?' about the bad stuff.

Adding comedy into what I do is just my natural approach. It's how I approach anything that I find tricky or daunting, because it's like putting syrup in your medicine, and it just makes it easier to go down.

Fear is often our immediate response to uncertainty. There's nothing wrong with experiencing fear. They key is not to get stuck in it.

In real life, I don't cry too easily. I go numb.

Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.

Pressure feels sort of normal to me.

I get really quiet when I'm nervous. I don't freak out.