Mark Gatiss Quotes

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

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

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

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.

The energy in a comedy is very serious. Somebody said comedy is a tragedy plus time. When you have a tragedy, for example, like this, like, 'We're going to die,' and you have time, like, five hours to die, it becomes a comedy.

I think that there's a fine line between comedy and drama. I think that ultimately, the less winking that's going on when you're doing comedy - and this is just my own thing, and maybe it's why I've never been hired in comedy except by Bill Lawrence - but I think that the less winking you do with comedy, the better off you are.

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

I love to do comedy, and I don't think of things as drama or comedy. I think that if it's a funny line, it's a funny line. If it's a funny moment, it's a funny moment.

Believe it or not, there's a lot of humor in 'Mad Men.' Especially in the dark moments.

A really good comedy, I think, is played as if it was real, and it's the circumstances that make it amusing. And I think that the - the inverse or the reverse is true for drama.

I'm not funny ha-ha, but I look for real humour in just about everything I've ever played.

All comedy is funny because it tells us truths that we recognise through laughter, but that doesn't mean it can't be unnerving. Think of 'Fawlty Towers'; it can be very, very dark, but by God, it's funny. The two things are not in opposition.

I love down-and-dirty and grit. But I do think that my favorite dramas are ones that are dark comedies because I think that the only way the audience and the actor can really go as dark and deep as you may want to go is if there's some levity added to it.

I think it's true of every great comedy that it's rooted in some dramatic, incredibly personal truth. And it's true of all great drama that there has to be comedy.

Sometimes WRONG is worth the FUNNY!

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

Comedy is very strange to me and I don't fully understand it's purpose or function.

I'm always going to do whatever I think is funniest. If something's dark, I'll do it. If it's a sock puppet, if it's a stool, I'll do it.

I love comedy, because I like making fun of things even though they are dramatic.

I naturally think in terms of comedy whenever I see anything because tragedy is so close to comedy, so I like to add the tragedy to the comedy or a little bit of comedy to the tragedy in order to make them both feel more real to me.

I think Georges Feydeau said comedy is just tragedy speeded up.

Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.