Barbara Stanwyck Quotes

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

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

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

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

Tragedy without comedy is melodrama, and comedy without a higher purpose is vacant.

When you watch one person on stage trying to surmount their fate only in that very action to embody it, it's called a tragedy. When you see a lot of people doing it on stage, it's called 'Fawlty Towers.'

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

Comedy defends the commonplace; tragedy explodes it.

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.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

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

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

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

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

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

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

I never understand when people say, 'Do you do comedy or tragedy?' I don't think they're very much different. They both have to be true, and there isn't a great play in the world that doesn't have funny parts to it - as 'Salesman' does, as 'King Lear' does. The whole idea is to reflect life in some way, which means surely you have to have both.

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

I don't see any division between the comic and the tragic. I feel like I'm writing about serious things, and humour is one of my tools. It's not contrived, just part of my world, part of the way things are to me.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

People think comedians don't do drama. Comics are drama. And what is drama, as opposed to comedy? It's all the same to me.

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

I have always felt comedy and tragedy are roommates. If you look up comedy and tragedy, you will find a very old picture of two masks. One mask is tragedy. It looks like it's crying. The other mask is comedy. It looks like it's laughing. Nowadays, we would say, 'How tasteless and insensitive. A comedy mask is laughing at a tragedy mask.'