top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy."
Standard
Customized
More
"98% of all comedians feel obliged to be funny when interviewed. Less than 2% succeed."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Comedy to me has always seemed a social tightrope for the comedian. For all axioms intellectually sound the general public would prefer to be amused, but in those emotionally sound, it then chooses to get offended."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I'm traveling the world, ripping rooms apart with my stupendous comedy."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I hate comedy... Yo...-yo bitch."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You need to understand that some comedy can have consequences."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Now, if you have never been hit by a flying burrito, count yourself lucky. In terms of deadly projectiles, it's right up there with grenades and cannonballs."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I can cry at the drop of the pin. But comedy is hard for me; it's the timing."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?"
History
"Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism."
Business
"The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that."
Music
"Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century."
Art
"Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy."
Comedy
"All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs."
Home
"The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the way they come together. The way that extraordinary space is controlled and given such emotional force."
Music
"I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner."
Ballet
"And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet."
Ballet
"However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet."
Ballet
bottom of page