Quote by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Since I'm not a second Marx or Freud who can offer people alternatives, I have to let them keep their own wrong feelings. And…

— Rainer Werner Fassbinder

I think a sense of humor is the emotional equivalent of a sense of realism. One should not take everything seriously, and everybody takes…

— Michael Maccoby

“Tragedy and comedy involve an audience, so they must give--sharing themselves to elicit tears and laughter. Melodrama is not such a strategist. It meets…

— Yiyun Li

People who take themselves too seriously, who can't see anything else, are usually funny.

— Christopher Guest

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

— Niels Bohr

The fact is that comedy is actually too serious to be taken seriously. It may be that comedy touches such deep emotions that people…

— Abe Burrows

I don't know if humor has a place for it but being light hearted does and not to take it too seriously.

— John Assaraf

When humor is meant to be taken seriously, it's no joke.

— Lionel Strachey

I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But they're also the hardest to convert into comedy at the…

— Mike Birbiglia

I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.

— Rachel Weisz

Comedy is drama. I think that if your characters are feeling something that is very real, then they have to respond in a way…

— Jason Robert Brown

I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But theyre also the hardest to convert into comedy at the…

— Mike Birbiglia