Force Quote by Arthur Miller

“Play is primal. It’s not a frivolous pastime—it’s a radical act of reclaiming joy and creativity in a world that often feels too serious.”

— Ken Breniman

The object of a comedy is not to correct morals or ridicule the vices of society; no, a comedy should depict the discrepancies between…

— Vissarion Belinsky

“Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him…

— Anonymous

When people discuss his plays, he says that he feels like he's standing at customs watching an official ransack his luggage. He cheerfully declares…

— Tom Stoppard

I think the novel is essentially a comic form (tragedy is for the theatre), not meaning by that full of jokes, but that it…

— Iris Murdoch

Play isn't you being clever, or finding a trick, or finding a way of covering over your own misery, or persuading someone to do…

— Ian Bogost

I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you…

— Jesse Eisenberg

Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking…

— George Gissing

The next time I write a play - in order to get audience trust for a particular sort of tragic line, I'll try to…

— Colm Toibin

“Comedy was invented to make people forget, That the plays of our lives were originally written as tragedies.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

Play is the way that human beings learn about the world. That's how we discover how things work.

— Katie Salen

The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out…

— Agnes Repplier