Quotes About Levity

For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.

The most important quality in a partner is a sense of humour.

True decadence involves taking nothing too seriously

I was kind of the comic relief in my household. We had a chronic illness in the family. And so, a lot of emergency room visits, and my role was to be silly and add levity, and we're Jewish. So every Passover is a performance. You kind of learn to role play and do voices at the Passover Seder.

The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.

People love self-deprecating humor.

I think it's important to have a sense of humor. You have to be able to laugh at yourself.

I love to laugh. A sense of humor is really important.

I don't think any movie I would do would be too serious or serious at all.

Apparently, I don't want to take myself too seriously.

There's more than enough seriousness in the world.

I'm good at being funny.

Being funny is everything to me.

Being funny is very complex.

A high-flying politician," Hopkinson wrote, "is I think not unlike a balloon—he is full of inflammability, he is driven along by every current of wind, and those who will suffer themselves to be carried up by them run a great risk that the bubble may burst and let them fall from the height to which a principle of levity had raised them."6

Even Alf is not humorous at times.

Comedy is in my bones.

I'm a sucker for a good sense of humor.

I can't imagine getting bored with comedy or thinking comedy is beneath us suddenly.

I think comedy suits me best.

The topic of global warming is so heavy that sometimes the only way you can open people's eyes is by greeting them with levity and self-deprecation first.

I just try to get people to laugh - I'm not trying to change the world or anything.

There's no such thing as a cheap laugh.

You want to represent it accurately, and the accurate representation of quarantine is not that it's sad all the time or that people are struggling constantly, it's that there are these moments of hardship and then there are intense moments of levity and kinship and people supporting each other.