I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific. — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time. — Artie Lange Copy Share Image
I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy. — Olivia Thirlby Copy Share Image
It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Comedy is tragedy plus time, but the time is different for everybody. — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Female hysteria is a subject I'm very fond of. I always try to bring it in somewhere. For me, it is the… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“If comedy is tragedy plus time, I need more fucking time. But I would really settle for less fucking tragedy.” ~ Jon Stewart” — Chris Smith Copy Share Image
“There’s no such thing as an uninteresting life, such a thing is an impossibility. Beneath the dullest exterior, there is a drama,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, cancer - not that funny of a thing. When you hear about it, you don't go, 'Oh, hilarious!'... But within… — Lennon Parham Copy Share Image
A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different… — Paula Patton Copy Share Image
I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. Making people laugh one moment… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
I think comedy is drama, often. It's hard to have comedy over a period of time - commercials are one thing, but… — Gore Verbinski Copy Share Image
If life is just a stage, then we are all running around ad-libbing, with absolutely no clue what the plot is. Maybe… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I naturally think in terms of comedy whenever I see anything because tragedy is so close to comedy, so I like to… — Amy Hill Copy Share Image
There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The 1960s ended sadly, as did Bonnie and Clyde, as did Jules and Jim, as did Thelma & Louise, a film they… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I have always felt comedy and tragedy are roommates. If you look up comedy and tragedy, you will find a very old… — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
The problem is that I work in more than one genre. It's impossible for me to aim for a single one because,… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
The energy in a comedy is very serious. Somebody said comedy is a tragedy plus time. When you have a tragedy, for… — Javier Camara Copy Share Image
Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes ofa continuous spectrum; both provide channels for the overflow… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well, for me, it's the relationship between comedy and life - that's the edge I live on, and maybe it's my protection… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
“It happens sometimes that you accidentally star in a little public performance of your very own comedy, tragedy, or melodrama. You’re running… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
Comedy and tragedy are so mixed up in life, Gilbert. The only thing that haunts me is that tale of the two… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
I feel like we can prove in real time the old trope that comedy is tragedy plus time. — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy. — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
