Audience Quote by Eddie Izzard

What reaches an audience is honesty. If you're saying something truthful that's supposed to be a funny line, it's going to be funny. And…

— Barbra Streisand

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

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

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 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

I get the greatest joy from just doing anything, being an actor. Doing music, and doing what I love to do. I don't make…

— John C. Reilly

I've always thought that comedy was just another dramatic expression. I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather than just…

— Harold Ramis

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

— Jason Reitman

With drama, you know if you're having a true moment, but in comedy, if somebody doesn't laugh, then you know you're not being funny.…

— Brooke Nevin

In comedy, you have to do all of the same stuff you do in drama and then put the comedy on top of it.…

— Jon Lovitz

Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work…

— Gabrielle Union

People think comedians don't do drama. Comics are drama. And what is drama, as opposed to comedy? It's all the same to me.

— Sinbad