Comedy is tragedy revisited.

The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer.

— Signe Baumane

I watched 'Who' with a mixture of affection and exasperation through the eighties, always ready to cheer on the Doctor but seldom feeling that…

— Alastair Reynolds

“But the past can't be out run, or revisited. And it won't be ignored. It will just be there, pushing us back until we…

— Chris Cole

If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it's so like a great book that many of us, at least while reading it, find…

— Evelyn Waugh

Comedy is tragedy revisited or hostility. It is mock hostility, of course, or it would be ugly; we would have a war.

— Phyllis Diller

A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to…

— Paula Patton

I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the…

— Roberto Benigni

You will not leave the theater with nothing to talk about. For me, comedy and tragedy when you get them both in one evening,…

— Cate Blanchett

I think my strength as a performer is my ability to straddle the fence between comedy and tragedy.

— Mariette Hartley

Comedy is tragedy plus time, but the time is different for everybody.

— Mike Birbiglia

“Humor is the most faithful supporting actor in a tragedy. So”

— Herbjørg Wassmo

My two souls, the socially conscious one and the lighthearted one, are always in my movies because they find a perfect habitat in my…

— Lina Wertmuller

Comedy comes from tragedy, and being Iranian in America from 1979 on had been quite tragic. In stand-up comedy, I was able to take…

— Maz Jobrani

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

— Christopher Fry

It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting,…

— Arthur Conan Doyle