Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe its because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly dont know. – Emmett Kelly
I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comics best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what hes doing is easy is an occupational hazard. – Richard Russo
There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain. – Robert Rauschenberg
When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. Thats what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was Youre a Big Boy Now. – Francis Ford Coppola
