Quotes About Levity

We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.

I quite like dark humor.

My favorite genre is comedy.

Doing comedy is one of the best gifts in life.

I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind.

I just find little things in life funny, it's why I giggle during my shows.

A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious.

But thoughtless ingratitude is the armour of the young; without it, how would they ever get through life? The old wish the young well, but they wish them ill also: they would like to eat them up, and absorb their vitality, and remain immortal themselves. Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past - the past of others, loaded on their shoulders. Selfishness is their saving grace.

One of my secrets is to joke all the time.

The best time to laugh is anytime you can.

What is life without laughter?

At least somebody's sense of humor was intact.

Life is too short to be taken seriously.

If you laugh, we just do another take. Laughter is too rare nowadays. If you can bust a gut, let it go, and we'll just go back to one.

People are apprehensive about finding 'The Leftovers' funny because it's such a dark circumstance, but I think, really, what the show is about is examining how different people deal with loss. There are elements of humour and levity and irony in that... just like in real life.

I'm a goof, man.

I always gravitate toward the humor in something.

I love down-and-dirty and grit. But I do think that my favorite dramas are ones that are dark comedies because I think that the only way the audience and the actor can really go as dark and deep as you may want to go is if there's some levity added to it.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want to make people laugh and make them think about socially relevant issues, but comedy, by the very nature of the word, is to make people laugh. If people aren't laughing, it's not comedy. It's as simple as that.

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.

she doesn't really have a sense of humor. I think she'd like to have one—it's just that she doesn't quite understand what jokes are for.

Ninety percent of all prisoners in all jails get out some day. So why not give them a little levity in what's otherwise a very dark life?

You can find humor in everything. everything.