Almost Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

The audience bursts into laughter. With the tragic gag I don't expect the audience to laugh (if they do, I have failed) but I…

— Jean Cocteau

I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut - or get angry from the…

— Andy Kaufman

I'm afraid that the act of writing is so scary and anxiety-filled that I never laugh at all. In fact, when people tell me…

— Cynthia Ozick

Fans always say they laughed and they cried while reading my books. And I tell them that I laughed and cried while writing them.

— Simone Elkeles

I once heard a woman laugh at that most tragic moment in all drama, the off-stage shot in "The Wild Duck," and I afterward…

— Robert Benchley

I'm getting older, so how people face grave circumstances is of interest to me. And you meet a lot of people who are very…

— Judd Apatow

“Everyone laughed their heads off, which is not what literally happened but I like the idea of laughing heads becoming detached from bodies through…

— Siobhan Dowd

The great writers like Chekhov know that tragedy and laughter are just a few steps from each other ... but it took me a…

— Vanessa Redgrave

There were some particular themes that I knew I wanted to hit, and when I got deeper into the project I found that it…

— Moshe Kasher

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

The thing you realize pretty quickly, though, is that being in front of an audience whose job it is to laugh is a big…

— Eric McCormack

Only after a while did it occur to me (in spite of the chilly silence which surrounded me) that my story was not of…

— Milan Kundera