Comedy Quote by Craig Mazin

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a…

— Woody Allen

Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.

— Rob Walton

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.

— Jason Reitman

You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have…

— Julianne Moore

With comedy, you have to do it right. In a drama, there's a lot of different ways to succeed in a moment. But comedy…

— Jack Nicholson

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

— Josh Lucas

Comedy opens you up to ideas that a straight-up drama doesn't. You resist those messages when they come to you earnestly or dramatically.

— Rick Famuyiwa

Comedy is harder than drama, because with comedy you're expecting a result..you make them laugh. [If] they ain't laughing then you're screwed.

— Billy Bob Thornton

The fact of the matter is, you can't do comedy unless someone is behaving badly. Otherwise, it's not a comedy.

— Keegan-Michael Key

Comedy has to be so much cleaner than drama. You can't layer it in the way you can a dramatic performance. Which is why…

— Grant Bowler

Comedy is a comfortable yet challenging place for me. I will always feel an inner pressure to do my best and to improve.

— Eddie McClintock

Drama is this incredibly vulnerable thing, but with comedy, you have to have a sense of rhythm and be very sensitive to the pace…

— Emma Stone