I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.
I'm funny. I'm a comedian. I'm not a clown.
You never have a comedian who hasn't got a very deep strain of sadness within him or her. Every great clown has been very near to tragedy.
I don't feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor.
I'm a natural clown, I suppose, in writing, and one has to accept that; I can't do anything about it. I have written one or two novels which are not specifically funny. I wrote a study of Shakespeare which was not intended to be funny, but some people regard it as such.
People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films.
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up.
As far as I can tell, comedians are pretty serious people, and that's why they make fun of things all of the time.
People who take themselves too seriously, who can't see anything else, are usually funny.