Quotes About Light-heartedness

I love an act that makes fun of the situation, and of course makes fun of yourself. That's important, you can't take yourself too seriously.

I provide a little comic relief.

Not taking yourself too seriously, that's the important thing.

I'd love to do something funny. Our work often deals with tough subjects. You do your research and it can be quite dark. So after all these years of drama, I'd like to go to work someday with the sole intention of making people laugh.

Most of my artwork is geared towards being humorous in some light.

It's nice if people can finally loosen up a little bit and just go out laugh at silliness. I mean, people take themselves way too seriously sometimes.

I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.

I always thought that romantic comedies were silly," Myra May said. "But I've changed my mind. The world is pretty grim. People need something to smile about.

There are far too many people out there who take themselves too seriously.

You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.

Jerry and I always felt that the character was enjoying himself. He was having fun: he wasn't taking himself seriously. It was always a lark for him, as you can see in my early drawings.

I can't crack jokes because I don't have any.

I'm joking all the time with my friends, even when we're talking about serious things.

I'd love to do more comedy. It'd just be nice to go into work and not be crying every day. Some broad slapstick would be great. Falling over banana skins would be wonderful.

Although there's an inherent light-heartedness to 'Sherlock,' I slightly err towards not doing the comedy.

I love comedy because I can laugh at myself. I dont take myself too seriously.

For the wine of Clochemerle is at once exquisite and treacherous; it charms first the nose, then the palate, finally the entire man. Mark well that if it makes a man drunk it does not do so malignantly. It produces an enchanting light-heartedness, an intellectual sparkle which liberates the drinker from the constraints and conventions which bind him in his daily life.

I don't think too seriously about anything, neither does my husband and my son. When we are home, we are constantly laughing over some trivial matters.

I actually like, love, and respect myself, and I try not to take anything too seriously.

I love practical jokes and humor. That there's frankly no joke that I don't think is funny. I love practical jokes, but I don't like being scared.

Like all people who have known rough times, light-heartedness seemed to her too irrational and inconsequent to be indulged in except as a reckless dram now and then; for she had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly...Her triumph was tempered by circumspection, she had still that field-mouse fear of the coulter of destiny despite fair promise, which is common among the thoughtful who have suffered early from poverty and oppression.

Every girl needs a bit of whimsy to remind her that life is a game and it's all about having fun.

I don't feel that I'm explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I'm not trying to be a mirror, showing them what's really going on the world. All I'm trying to do is think of stuff that's funny, just like when I'm kidding around with my friends.

I think people can stand to take themselves just a little less seriously. I'm fighting the war against pretension.