T. C. Boyle Quotes

I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.

It's fun to do a comedy and hook people in and then hoodwink them into watching a serious movie. I like to lead in with the comedy and then hit them over the head with a drama.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Without humor, a newscast is a terrible, depressing, unpalatable thing.

People who take themselves too seriously, who can't see anything else, are usually funny.

One of the funny things in life to me is a guy who takes himself very seriously.

We are in the entertainment business. This should be fun. We are musicians; we don't save lives. We shouldn't... we shouldn't take ourselves too seriously or be revered that much.

Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.

David Ayer is known for being a very serious filmmaker, but he has a very great sense of humor.

I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

I want to have fun. I'm not interested in being a serious actor, because I think it's boring, and I think we've got plenty of them.

People think I'm a very serious actor, which I am. But you know, if you don't have a sense of humor doing what I do, you perish.

There is nothing that is so serious that you can't also see its comic side. Comedy is a way of talking about the most serious things.

I think there's always room for humor, especially when you're talking about really serious issues.

I do really like serio-comic movies that treat real difficulties in a real way.

I do not have a sense of humor of any recognizable sort.

I often find in doing tragedy, or doing very serious material, that there's a level of anxiety that builds that often leads to laughter in some cases. In between takes, there can often be a lightness.

I say throwaway, jokey things. When you're young-looking and you are presenting something that has gravitas you can't look down your nose, but when David Dimbleby does it, it's OK.

I wanted to take the seriousness out of everything a little bit, because it kind of fits my style.

I say funny stuff in my lyrics to make people laugh, but it's all in the seriousness of the music. I'm just being witty.

I like telling stories with a sense of humor. But humor can also distance you from the subject you're writing about. I'm interested in using humor as a portal to something a bit more serious.

Who wants to watch a series without humour?

I think everything benefits from a little comedy. The worst thing to me is to see a great drama or a great thriller with no laughs.

You are likely to make more mistakes with a light-hearted film than a serious one.

On one level, I am a massive joker and can't take anything seriously, but on the other hand, I'm incredibly serious and a deep thinker, so I have that dichotomy within me.