George C. Wolfe Quotes

David Mamet's writing is pretty spectacular, obviously. I like the honesty of it; I like how funny it is and how sad it is.

You can channel a lot within a comic framework, and I think 'The Guard' had a lot going on outside of the comedy, which is satisfying.

You know, what I like about 'The Family Tree' is it's a kitchen sink movie; you can't think of anything that it doesn't either throw into the story for conflict or poke fun at or attack, even, so I like it.

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

All Shondaland shows have a level of intelligence, a level of humor, a level of pathos and human connection.

I don't think that 'No Man's Land' is a comedy. I think that it's a serious film with a good sense of humour.

Dramas are incredibly compelling. I feel like 'Silver Linings Playbook' is a drama, but because it's funny, people market it as a comedy.

'The Cherry Orchard' is a masterpiece, and there can never be too many adaptations.

I think it helped that 'Fleabag' had such a dramatic arc to it, even though it was disguised as a comedy.

Comedy defends the commonplace; tragedy explodes it.

But our comedies never endured long without a tragedy.

Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

I really think if you take away a character's obstacles then there's no comedy.

I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all.

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

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.

Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor.

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

I haven't played Hedda Gabler yet, but maybe if I did I might find the funny bits.

When you think about Broadway, you think broad and big, but the fact is there are so many plays that are very intimate, but fill a 1,500-seat house. Plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' have deep moments of silence and intimacy to them.

On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters - words have to be used to express that, and I love that about theater.

I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

I was like the class clown in school so I guess I would say I did like the attention. In church I did a lot of plays, my mother made me play characters, do a lot of drama and acting, trying to become someone else. So it helped me create who I am, to create Snoop Dogg.

I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the funny part!