Reese Witherspoon Quotes

Drama is easy to fool people with, but you can't trick people into laughing.

The minute you make people laugh, you get them to listen.

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

I like making people laugh, so drama was never a big leap for me.

'Harvey' continues to be both a charming and hilarious play.

For me, the most exciting thing is to create good magic that's entertaining for an audience, and it would be lovely if a magician was fooled as well.

When you need a good laugh, do you reach for a book? I don't. I expect books to move me deeply and submerge me in another reality. So when a novel makes me roar with laughter, it's always a delightful surprise.

Series Two of 'The Paradise' is meaty and thoroughly entertaining... and yeah, you're in for a good thrill ride!

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

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

I like when people are trapped in the joke, when there's no escape. I like to lead people down the wrong path and then trap them.

The most serious film can be the most fun. The one that's supposed to be fun can be the most serious.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.

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

I played comedies and dramas.

You make 'em, I amuse 'em.

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

If I weren't performing, there is a real chance that I would be a 'One Man, Two Guvnors' groupie. I think that production is masterful in every way.

I've always said people say on a dramatic show, 'I was crying. It was so emotional when he went and grabbed that little girl from a burning building and handed her over to her mother.' In comedy, the best thing you can say is, 'I think it's funny.'

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.

I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.

In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.

I often do very serious roles, but really I am a big clown.

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

I'm a real paradox. Because I'm a very serious person, and I take my work very seriously. But I wrap it up in a court jester and a clown and make people laugh and make them feel good about themselves.