Donald Wolfit Quotes

Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.

Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.

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

People think comedians don't do drama. Comics are drama. And what is drama, as opposed to comedy? It's all the same to me.

For comedy, timing is key.

To me, comedy is a game.

There's depth in my comedy.

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

I think that there's a fine line between comedy and drama.

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

Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.

There's an art to comedy.

Comedy is very, very hard to achieve.

In comedy, it's so subjective; there is no right or wrong.

Comedy makes me soar, and comedy is very serious business.

Comedy is not an easy genre.

Do you know what the key to comedy is? Timing.

Comedians play off of social commentary.

With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

There's nothing more difficult to do than comedy.

Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine. Like, if Jerry Seinfeld wasn't funny, you'd want to punch him in the face; he'd just seem like a whiner to you. But the fact is that he's funny.

Comedy is such a personal thing. Everybody can cry at the same thing, but it's a lot harder to get everyone to laugh at the same thing.

People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.