Eric Bana Quotes

I think that life is very dark at times and there are things that are very funny about that.

I naturally think in terms of comedy whenever I see anything because tragedy is so close to comedy, so I like to add the tragedy to the comedy or a little bit of comedy to the tragedy in order to make them both feel more real to me.

There's a fine line between comedy and the darkest place ever.

I'll see something, and I'll go, 'Oh, wow, that's interesting,' because really, comedy comes from the truth.

I love down-and-dirty and grit. But I do think that my favorite dramas are ones that are dark comedies because I think that the only way the audience and the actor can really go as dark and deep as you may want to go is if there's some levity added to it.

I'm inspired by making people laugh at subjects that should make them cry.

I used to think of myself as a comedian. I've always admired comedians. Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There's a liberation in that.

The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I like surprising people with the fact that something's even a joke at all.

I think all the funny people were bullied. When they talk about outlawing bullying, it's like, what? You want no Comedy Central?

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

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

I think comedy, so much of it comes out of the strange sort of golden instant 'cause you don't know why it's funny, but you captured it.

But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.

Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great optimists aren't necessarily the funniest people.

Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.

You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.

The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you.

One of the attractions of translating 'Heroes' is that it's not the kind of play that I write. If it had been, I probably wouldn't have wanted to translate it. There are no one-liners. It's much more a truthful comedy than a play of dazzling wit.

To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you.

I'd be hard-pressed to think of anybody who's made me laugh, who's funny, but who's also relentlessly positive.

I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you couldn't be a comedian.

Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.