When I was in college, I had a friend who was an artist…

Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line.

— Chrissie Hynde

New Yorkers think they have everything, all the best art and music. But really L.A. is a better place.

— Wolfgang Puck

“Happiness does not create humor. There's nothing funny about being happy. Sadness creates humor. Krazy Kat getting hit on the head by a brick…

— Charles M. Schulz

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

— Tony Hancock

“All art needs to be funny, sad and a little disturbing simultaneously or else it's not art.”

— Ezekiel Tyrus

When you are 15, everything is such high stakes, even tiny things. I think because of that, it is funny but sad at the…

— Sophie Wu

I think I was born with a natural way of looking at something and trying to find the ways in which it was odd…

— Briga Heelan

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

— J. Michael Straczynski

“I’m a horrible person. But so is Elisabeth, so I think it’s okay.” I bumped my shoulder with hers as I laughed even louder.…

— Aly Martinez

David Mamet's writing is pretty spectacular, obviously. I like the honesty of it; I like how funny it is and how sad it is.

— T. R. Knight

We all die at the end, but does that nullify everything? Would most people rather say, "I wish I hadn't been born?" Once you're…

— John Cleese

We try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think.

— Tony Hancock

We need to have profound compassion for the people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their life, and…

— Michele Bachmann

There are two ways to tell the story. Funny or sad. Guys like it funny, with lots of gore and a grin on your…

— Phil Klay

“Funny + sad is what I'm pitching for, every time.”

— Nick Hornby