Find Quote by Melvin Van Peebles Download Open image “What some folks find funny, other folks find tragic.” — Melvin Van Peebles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Find Folks Funny Other Some
We want to ascribe a kind of tragic grimness to people, but people are funny. — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
I've always found the most tragic things funny. I was always the guy laughing at the funeral. — Andrew Gurland Copy Share Image
You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny. — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Even when something sad or tragic happens, I find a way to look at it in a positive light. People who don't have a… — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
There used to be such a thing as a sick joke, or laughing at misfortune, because comedy and laughter are a way of coping.… — Limmy Copy Share Image
Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens. — David Hyde Pierce Copy Share Image
Much of the best humor is found in the frequently tragic reality of human experience. — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
I went to a number of schools when I was a kid on the south side of Chicago. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
I'm not a normal director. You can't look at me that way. What's kept me alive is my technical skill at doing other things. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
Don't ask me something if you don't want to know. Because I will tell you. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
I was a trader for a company. That's different from the brokers who we sort of disdain as sort of just errand boys. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
After 'Don't Play Us Cheap,' I got very busy with theater and Wall Street. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
The studios didn't really take independent films seriously, till 'Sweetback' was such a financial success. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
Whitey is uptight about offending blacks without really knowing what offends blacks. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
I said to my kids, 'Learn the business of America if you want to be an artist in America. The rest of that stuff,… — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
It's those moments, those odd moments that you look for and sometimes by creating this kind of loose atmosphere you find those little moments… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
I ask for tips, for advice. What I have also learnt is that I need to do things that are good for me. In… — Matthijs de Ligt Copy Share Image
Consumers can choose organic cotton grown without pesticides, but it uses more water and requires more land than conventional crops. Organic cotton can also… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
You will find that the more successful the individual, the less inclined he is to make excuses. — David Joseph Schwartz Copy Share Image
There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers. — Deborah Norville Copy Share Image
They will find somebody younger, somebody funnier, somebody more engaged. As long as the court genre is viable, people are going to be looking… — Judy Sheindlin Copy Share Image
I think I need the demons in order to write, but the demons have gone. It bothers me a lot. I've tried and tried,… — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm very fond of classical music, especially Mozart. I find it relaxes me and helps me concentrate. — Guler Sabanci Copy Share Image
Failure to find a way to incorporate political Islam in democracy, however uncomfortable its ideology is for secular liberals, will mean we have given… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
Reading counts as partying, even if you're not enjoying it! Even if someone's forcing you to read, you can find a way to make… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
George Roy Hill, Redford, and I have been looking for a script to do together for 13 years. We haven't been able to find… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
People from all walks of life that you might find as a King Diamond fan - you don't look a certain way; you don't… — King Diamond Copy Share Image
