The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
And write what you love - don't feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny.
People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.
I remember nearly having a fit of the giggles during the reading because dear Daniel was SO respectful and serious and I was finding the whole situation funny because I was speaking to his profile.
I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.
Sometimes I am so dry that people don't know I'm kidding and think I'm being serious. I enjoy this because their reactions are often funny.
Life is just a bowl of cherries, don't take it serious, its mysterious. Life is just a bowl of cherries, so live and laugh and laugh at love, love a laugh, laugh and love.
Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.
The decline and fall of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates a calmer political environment and, for many believers, may help open the way for a more theologically serious religious life.
'Taxi Driver' is a movie that changed my life and made me a serious actor. Scorsese and De Niro. I give credit for anything that I've ever done as an actor.
My style is an extension of acting and an outcome of some serious lessons I picked up learning when I did theatre in my early days.
I wish that I wasn't such an odd mixture. I wish I was serious, but I do love high heels and romantic comedies: being in them and watching them.
It's fun once in a while to do a serious part but I really enjoy doing comedy because I love to laugh.
I will never say I am committed to somebody unless I'm serious about that person.
I was a serious kid to an absurd degree. I was overwhelmed with responsibility. You know, trying to play grown up. I overdid it.
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.
But ya have to make videos in the States. Usually ours just look too serious. We haven't got it together.
The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.
Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.
When you're dealing with serious subjects, there is a pressure to be absolutely sure that you know what you're doing.
