Comedy Quote by Ira Sachs

I feel, in drama, you don't need to be fed everything. Even though sometimes when you watch, you want to know what happened and…

— Jodie Comer

Peter Morgan's writing is so much about what you don't say: you're saying one thing but there's 10 other things going on, and those…

— Vanessa Kirby

An abiding preoccupation for me is how much of our lives are invisible and unknown by other people, like the Chekhov story 'The Lady…

— Claire Messud

Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist.

— Alice Neel

I don't read many popular histories like the ones I write. The building blocks for my research are scholarly monographs, and the inspiration for…

— Rick Perlstein

English country life is more like Chekhov than 'The Archers' or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared.

— Jane Gardam

For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melancholy, like those Chekhov characters so…

— Orhan Pamuk

Comedy is a great slayer of rogues in power.

— Michael Moore

Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.

— Trevor Noah

I'd actually love to do comedy. It would be great to go to work to get a laugh.

— Adrian Dunbar

Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

— Eddie Izzard

Keenser is a smart alien. I try to bring a little bit of comedy into it, but he's a great thinker.

— Deep Roy