Daisy Shah Quotes

We like drama. Even in our comedy, we like drama.

For me, suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor.

I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives.

Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors.

If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.

Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

In fifth grade, we had to write a story and read it in front of the class. When I read mine out, the class were just belly laughing. And I remember being like, 'This is the coolest!' So I want to dedicate my life to trying to make people laugh. I can't imagine doing anything else.

I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me.

My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention.

Drama and comedy, to me, are all about being surprising, coherent, and true, all at once.

I love playing different characters and I love doing fun things and I love to entertain people, whether that be in a comedy or a drama. If I get you to laugh or I get you to cry I'm super stoked, as morbid as that might sound.

One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.

A great byproduct of a TV show, movie, or play is when it can act as a catalyst for someone.

I like fiction. I love all sorts of love stories, I think. I even watched '17 Again.'

You can channel a lot within a comic framework, and I think 'The Guard' had a lot going on outside of the comedy, which is satisfying.

To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.

You cannot have the drama without comedy.

You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved, because the movie is almost always bad when you do that. Your job No. 1 is for it to be entertaining, and if it's inspiring, that is great, too.

The hardest thing is to write a play, because you have to hold their attention for two hours, and if you let them go for five minutes, they're gone for good.

The social dimension of the art world is fascinating to me, but I also want to entertain the reader, so I will let a character say something funny.

I attempt to create a form of seriocomic entertainment to either delight, enlighten, or disgust, whichever you'd like. In terms of making motion pictures, I write and direct and act. I guess you'd say I'm a filmmaker.

If it's a drama or comedy, it doesn't matter to me. I just want to like the writing.

Show me a novel that's not comic, and I'll show you a novel that's not doing its job.

Like any compelling show on television, what works best in WWE is relationships. What's the relationship between these two people, and how does the conflict manifest itself into box office?