Eddie Marsan Quotes

My definitions of comedy, drama, and straight man are all blurry for me. I don't think of it in those terms.

It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.

Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes.

When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.

He sort of gets comic moments. Not a lot of directors do.

I love comedies, both broad and subtle.

Most of what I write is comedy.

Bimal Roy never kept comedy out of the story line.

Comedy, unlike drama, demands surprise. You can't quietly and thoughtfully enjoy a comedy.

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

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

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

It's very hard to write humor.

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

People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

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

I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.

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

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

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

Writing humor is not something every single person can do.

The best shows to tweet about are the ones that are hilarious, but they might not necessarily be trying to be hilarious. Those are the easiest and the funniest because you're like 'come onnnn.'