Jack Lemmon Quotes

I enjoy comedy and drama. A nice balance of both is great.

For me, comedy and drama are all the same thing.

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

The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.

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.

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

To me, some of the funniest movies would be probably categorized in the dramatic genre, and likewise, some of the most dramatic films, or films that have the most dramatic moments, are in comedies.

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

My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.

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.

Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.

I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.

I think all good drama is funny. All the best drama is ultimately very funny. Life is funny. You can't have any honest treatise on life without bumping into some humor.

Comedy is not easy to begin with, but comedy that also dances with drama - it's so hard.

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

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

Every time I think about writing, comedy doesn't interest me in the slightest. I can play comedy, but I don't think in terms of comic dialogue.

I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

'The Importance of Being Earnest' is important, but it says nothing about anything.

Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

I'm not temperamentally into high comedy. I'm not a Noel Coward kind of girl.

I think Britain has this tradition which suggests that if you make the readers laugh too much, you can't really be serious. Whereas, I think one of the functions laughter can perform in a book, as in life, is that it's a reaction to genuine horror.

I think comedy is drama, often. It's hard to have comedy over a period of time - commercials are one thing, but over a period of time - comedy and tragedy go hand in hand.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. That's the comedy that I like.