Quotes by David Hyde Pierce

“Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.”

“I do know that if youre able to laugh in a situation, it means you have perspective on the situation... that youre not swallowed up by it. On some level, you can keep your head above water enough to see the humor in something. Being able to have a sense of humor in dark times is an indication that you can make it.”

“So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... its both things at the same time.”

“Nothing ever guarantees you anything-thats my rule. My other rule is never believe anything that anyone tells you, and then youll never be fooled. Its not as cynical as it sounds; its just that people always say something for a reason-maybe a nice reason, maybe a devious reason-so on that level, you cant take things at face value.”

“Ive been kick-boxing for exercise. And now if I turn on boxing on the television by accident, I watch it, and I love it. Whereas a year ago, I thought it was the stupidest thing I had even seen-that you would voluntarily watch these people beat the crap out of each other and think, oh, thats entertainment.”

“We cant control what the ratings will be. Its like, if youre going to go skiing, do you hope youll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you wont break your leg? Yes.”

“I would always fall down the big main staircase in our house. My favorite thing in the world was to pretend to be horribly killed at the top of it, and to fall dramatically down to the bottom of it.”

“My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?”

“I am, by nature, a fairly shy person, and one of the things I had to learn was, when youre on a popular show and people feel they know you, what used to pass for shyness can be perceived as rude. I do feel more vulnerable, but people are always nice. Nobody ever comes up and throws food on me and says the show is crap.”

“On some level in acting, what youre trying to find is truth, because when its true is when its also funny.”

Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.

I dont remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years.

We all went to Kelseys wedding, and yeah, we go to parties. We also go to each others house. A group of us got together over at Kelseys and just read through some plays just for the fun of it. That may not be everyones idea of a good time, but we had a good time.