Shannyn Sossamon Quotes

There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that.

'Natural Born Killers' is really a misunderstood romantic comedy.

But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.

Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.

'Suburbicon' feels like a last gasp of some kind of middle. It thinks it's both frivolous and serious. But, for that, you need a touch that George Clooney's never had.

I've always been attracted to more intense and darker roles, but I think there is complexity and darkness in comedies as well.

In my comedy, I'm not always trying to say something, but when I'm playing a creepy dude, you're laughing because you know that creepy dude. You've heard that dude say something awful, and I'm just putting a little creative spin on it.

'The Twilight Zone' was sometimes shockingly cruel, far crueller than most TV drama today would dare to be.

Very few people took sordid things and made comedies out of them.

I don't think that 'No Man's Land' is a comedy. I think that it's a serious film with a good sense of humour.

The logical quandaries thrown up by well-meaning systems are clearly something that I find darkly amusing.

Comedy, in my opinion, is best when it's in the gray, and you're kind of pushing people's thoughts that they sort of had but never vocalized. And I think a joke is not good if someone says something, and immediately people are clapping because they're like, 'Yes! That is how I feel as well!'

I think comedy can be a way of sugar-coating a pill that needs to be taken, and whatever I complain about onstage, I hope I justify the negativity by using humour to make the point.

I love comedy, but more than that, I love comedy that has a message and that has some stakes.

I'm interested in people's darkness - and humor in the darkness.

And I think comedy obviously a great way to get a message out because you know the reason why things are funny is because they're true.

I can't speak for everyone, but the kind of comedy that makes me laugh are the ones that kind of make me cringe, and kind of make me look inside my own fears, my own anxieties.

You can take my dirtiest, craziest joke, and I can break down in my head why there's a good, honest, honorable reason for telling it.

I believe comedy is a really good lens to filter serious issues through. If people are laughing, they don't necessarily realize until they stop laughing that they just took something in that's going to start a conversation.

Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without being moralized.

I like things that are funny and have a lot else in them besides that - ideas, for example.

As a comedian, I am attracted to truths that are uncomfortable. I like funny bummers.

Sometimes, I use humor because I believe in revealing truth in a way that other forms cannot.

I think it helped that 'Fleabag' had such a dramatic arc to it, even though it was disguised as a comedy.

When you're laughing aloud at David Sedaris' every sentence, it's easy to miss the more serious side of what he's up to.