Dan Levy Quotes

Comedy has to be so much cleaner than drama. You can't layer it in the way you can a dramatic performance. Which is why it's more difficult than drama - you don't have so many tricks.

It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.

I enjoy comedy and drama. A nice balance of both is great.

You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it.

Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.

George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.

Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama, and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.

For me, comedy and drama are all the same thing.

Comedy is probably a lot harder for me. Maybe it's because I've been doing drama for so long or maybe it's because... you don't want to search for a laugh; you can't try to be funny, you just have to naturally be funny or be in a situation that's funny.

Comedy is music.

Comedy is a very rough beat. It's no holds barred, as it should be.

My theory is that comedy comes from little people.

I like to describe my stuff as observational comedy.

Comedy has always been more challenging for me than drama.

Comedy is the most difficult thing to do. Easily the most difficult.

I think comedy is funnier when it's real.

Nobody really knows, but I got a little comedy in me.

It's very difficult to make comedy work; I think it's a very underrated genre.

I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.

Comedy is wonderful when you really nail it and you hear people laughing, but it's not always that easy.

I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes.

Comedy is very, very hard to achieve.

To me, some of the funniest movies would be probably categorized in the dramatic genre, and likewise, some of the most dramatic films, or films that have the most dramatic moments, are in comedies.

Comedy is hard. Any idiot can have an opinion.

Comedy is a weird thing.