Comedy Quote by Alexander Pope

“There are tragedies and there are comedies, aren’t there? And they are often more the same than different, rather like men and women, if…

— Siri Hustvedt

There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad…

— Fernando Pessoa

When you look at the comedies that are out there, 99 per cent of the time, men are the heroes. It's often thought that…

— Audrey Tautou

The trend the world over is comedy. People have enough tragedies in their lives.

— Priyadarshan

I think there's a lack of quality roles for women in comedies. Most actresses get cast as the "eye-roller" or "the serious one," while…

— Isla Fisher

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

— Angela Carter

Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is…

— Jennifer Stone

Comedy and drama are less ageist media for women than stuff like light entertainment. But in TV or film, women have to be more…

— Sharon Horgan

Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.

— Charlton Heston

I grew up in a time when women didn't really do comedy. You had to be homely, overweight, an old maid, all that. You…

— Lily Tomlin

Comedy is merely tragedy happening to someone else.

— W. C. Fields

Women, a lot of the time, are so much funnier than men, but they just choose not to do comedy for a living.

— Ali Wong