Arthur Miller Quotes

What begins with comedy ends with comedy... in my short view of the matter.

I actually feel that all drama has an element of comedy in it. A great deal of that I learned from writers like Chekhov who called his plays his comedy even when they touch on tragedy.

It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.

I haven't played Hedda Gabler yet, but maybe if I did I might find the funny bits.

Life serves up satire. Unfortunately. Or fortunately. I don't know. You have to reel it in to drama.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. That's the comedy that I like.

I don't think that there's necessarily a side to drama that has to be completely bleak. You have to have a flicker of humor 'cause everyone has a flicker of humor, something they find funny in life.

'Heartbreak House' was a lot of fun for me. I must have missed that day at school. I'd never read it or seen it. It's one of those things that a lot of people are familiar with.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

A really good comedy, I think, is played as if it was real, and it's the circumstances that make it amusing. And I think that the - the inverse or the reverse is true for drama.

I'm not funny ha-ha, but I look for real humour in just about everything I've ever played.

I think Hyderabadis have the best sense of humour in the entire country and I still remember the famous plays of 'Adrak Ke Panje' by Babban Khan and 'Dhed Matwale.'

Whether it's Shakespeare or Moliere, irony is a key component in the construction of theatre. A script would be pretty bad if it was devoid of irony.

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.

Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.

Dramas make me laugh. The other day, I saw 'The Place Beyond the Pines,' and I was giggling the whole time. I laugh when I'm uncomfortable.

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.