Norman Wisdom Quotes

All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.

When I was at Upright Citizens Brigade, I would pretend to be a sad, drunk rapper.

I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad.

The trick of 'Up' was to balance the sad stuff with the silly stuff.

I'm a comedian, and I definitely see the humor in a lot of things. I am also sad a lot. I cry often and easily. I think you're supposed to feel all kinds of things.

There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New Amsterdam, and Boston, and the infancy of those born in the first years of colonial life in this strange new world.

I'm incredibly sad that my mother's not here to see my kids and that my kids don't get to know her. And she didn't meet my husband. That's one of the hardest things. I don't even know how to put that into words.

So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.

If you don't have humour, then you may as well nail the coffin lid down now.

I write with humour about sadness, to introduce an element of sweet to the sour, a bit like Turkish food.

We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.

His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.

The old, sad art colors are gone. Now I paint bright colors. I paint paintings which are happy, where children are laughing and playing with animals. I paint paradise on Earth. I still paint sadness sometimes, but there is sadness in the world, too.

Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.

We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.

And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.

I understand that being able to appeal to the public and having an amazing sense of humour is not something that comes easy. It's definitely a gift and for which I'm thankful.

There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.

All people are sad clowns. That's the key to comedy - and it's a buffer against reality.

I find Spike Jones' movies to be really very inventive and funny, but they're really sad and touching and really key into the different facets of the human experience.

Funny and sad are two sides of the same coin. I think that most comedians are able to tap into deep subject matter.

Some of the best comedy comes from squeezing humour from tragedy and struggle, but the main pursuit of comedy should be laughter.

I always felt like the best comedy came out of sadness, and some of my favourite shows growing up - a lot of my influences - have these very sad characters and treat that sadness seriously while also being very funny.

Working with Jagmohan Mundra was a treat. His sense of humour is incredible.