Michael Mosley Quotes

You cannot have the drama without comedy.

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

For a comedienne, you have to have a little tragedy or a dark side, just not too much. Otherwise it's too disruptive.

Mike and I like a balance of tones. We never set out to make an overtly silly show or an overly serious dramatic show.

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.

There's a fine line between comedy and the darkest place ever.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

There is nothing that is so serious that you can't also see its comic side. Comedy is a way of talking about the most serious things.

I think drama and comedy are pretty much all the same, and the issue is whether or not you have a sense of humor.

I think everything benefits from a little comedy. The worst thing to me is to see a great drama or a great thriller with no laughs.

I think the best dramas are as funny as possible and the best comedies have, underneath them, real substance.

Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.

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

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.

I always found that drama, really good drama, has a lot of comedy in it.

Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.

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.

I definitely try to mix humour into anything I do, even if it is into a drama.

I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

When I was a playwright earlier in my career - my senior project in high school was my first produced play - I used to put on the title page: 'A tragedy with laughs.'

You can do gross-out until the cows come home but if there isn't something to balance it, then it's not going to work at all.

A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

Dying is easy; comedy is hard.