"I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive." ― Ian Mcewan Topic(s): Funny More From Ian Mcewan "I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I’ll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence." "London in the ’70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had severe energy problems; we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities; politics were fantastically polarized between left and right." "I don’t believe there’s any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force." More In Funny "I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously."― Rachel Weisz "And regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I’ve never thought of it that way. I’ve always thought it to be important. The last time I looked, the Greeks were holding up two masks. I’ve always thought of it not only as having equal value, but as the craft of it, being funny."― Jeff Daniels "Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!"― Steve Martin