A Quote by Bahman Ghobadi

I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous.

Bahman Ghobadi

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Appearance Foundation Humorous Humour Lot Tragic Use

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Bahman Ghobadi
Iranian - Diplomat
Born: February 1, 1969

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humour: he will always use it in evidence against you.

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

I use humour a lot because humour is a great equaliser. Everyone laughs at the same things if you set them up properly, and that makes everybody equal. At the end of the day, I see my job as being there to entertain as well as inform and provoke.

Gurinder Chadha

I have a humorous side but these days humour can be a risky thing.

Narendra Modi

In terms of love, you're not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I'm a very tragic person. But there's always an element of humour at the end.

Freddie Mercury

Humour is ahead of everything creatively. I think if things aren't humorous, they are just crap.

Roisin Murphy

Cultivate a sense of humour. From a humorous point of view this lunch is rather good.

Jerome K. Jerome

The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.

Mike Figgis

Stuffed animals are sad and scary; they have humorous and tragic qualities.

Maurizio Cattelan

The difference between farce and humour in literature is, I suppose, that farce strums louder and louder on one string, while humour varies its note, changes its key, grows and spreads and deepens until it may indeed reach tragic depths.

V. S. Pritchett

In my own works I am an obsessionist. Though I write humorous music too, much of it has been obsessed by death and the tragic.

Krzysztof Penderecki

Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tragic intent. I don't know what to say to this except that I disagree wholeheartedly.

Patrick deWitt

Look at Gleason in The Honeymooners. He was humorous but the way he lived wasn't really humorous. He was a bus driver. Who wants to be a bus driver? He didn't have any money and he was not famous. But despite that, the show is humorous.

George Thorogood

My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a little bit like me, although he had no beard. He had the appearance of a very elegant British-looking man.

Michael Haneke

Two things people throughout history have had in common are hatred and humour. I am proud that I have been able to use humour to lessen people's hatred.