Curtis Armstrong Quotes

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

Mike and I like a balance of tones. We never set out to make an overtly silly show or an overly serious dramatic show.

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.

If you play comedic scenes like they're really serious, then it's so much more funny than if you're going for a laugh.

If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area.

For a comedienne, you have to have a little tragedy or a dark side, just not too much. Otherwise it's too disruptive.

You cannot have the drama without comedy.

I always want to lead with comedy but hopefully be able to sneak my message through at the same time.

Things have to be funny first, and if they want to have a point, that's awesome.

And sometimes you can make your point better with comedy than you can through shouting about it.

I think the best dramas are as funny as possible and the best comedies have, underneath them, real substance.

Comedy can do so much more than make you laugh.

Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without being moralized.

I like things that are sort of comic and humorous rather than satirical.

Between funny and witty Falls the shadow

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

You know, funny can be universal.

Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.

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

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

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.

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

For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.