Constance Marie Quotes

I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

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

Life serves up satire. Unfortunately. Or fortunately. I don't know. You have to reel it in to drama.

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.

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

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.

Life is tragic but it's equally comic.

When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.

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

It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

You cannot have the drama without comedy.

I think a good dollop of sadness is quite a useful thing in comedy sometimes. I think if everyone's happy all the time, it's a bit dull. It's like salt and caramel - you wouldn't imagine they would go well together, but they do.

The truth is really funny. It's uncomfortable sometimes, it's dramatic sometimes, but it's really funny. Life is funny.

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.

In life, there's a ying and a yang and a balance. And when you don't have balance, you have comedy.

That's what sort of fascinates me - what's funny as well as what's sad.

Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.

The times I've tried not to be funny, it's never worked, and the times I'm trying not to be dark and just be funny, that never works, either. As varied as my subject matter is, I think the worldview is pretty consistent: seeing darkness and seeing humor.

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

Life is such a tragicomedy.