Horace Walpole Quotes

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

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

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

I feel like with comedy, the crazy things that happen are never serious you know? Like, rubble being poured onto you in drama would be something that's absolutely terrible, but in a comedy it's absolutely terrible but so funny.

Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away.

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

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

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

Life is dramatic and comedic at times. Sometimes in the most dramatic situations, there is comedy. And good comedy comes from a sense of reality.

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

Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

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.

You cannot have the drama without comedy.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

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'm inspired by making people laugh at subjects that should make them cry.

I've always thought that comedy was just another dramatic expression.

Comedy exists to laugh at things that aren't laughable. But isn't it? That's what separates us from the animals. We laugh.

A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.

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.

You can't have good comedy without drama in it.

I think that you can make a drama and have it be intensely funny, and vice versa.

The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.