Thomas Bailey Aldrich Quotes

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

Tragedy without comedy is melodrama, and comedy without a higher purpose is vacant.

Good comedy films, if you listen to the score, the music is not trying to be funny. It's always, in a way, underscoring the tragedy and struggle of the main character.

The important thing in acting is to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to laugh, I think of my sex life. If I have to cry, I think of my sex life.

A laughing Lear would be monstrous. Not so a laughing Romeo and Juliet.

I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.

Life is such a tragicomedy.

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

I don't see any division between the comic and the tragic. I feel like I'm writing about serious things, and humour is one of my tools. It's not contrived, just part of my world, part of the way things are to me.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

I think comedy is drama, often. It's hard to have comedy over a period of time - commercials are one thing, but over a period of time - comedy and tragedy go hand in hand.

There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.

When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies.

Our everyday lives exist with comedy and tragedy next to each other.

From my point of view, humour and irony include tragedy; they're two sides of the same coin.

I always felt like the best comedy came out of sadness, and some of my favourite shows growing up - a lot of my influences - have these very sad characters and treat that sadness seriously while also being very funny.

Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.

If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And vice versa.

Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?

I like films that are so funny, dramatic and lifelike simultaneously, that you are laughing and cringing simultaneously all throughout the film.

The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

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.

A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.