Coins Quote by Jack Dee

Comedy is merely tragedy happening to someone else.

— W. C. Fields

In movies, comedy and tragedy are all the same.

— Jean-Luc Godard

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

— Jason Reitman

There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by…

— Anonymous

Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?

— John Updike

The difference between tragedy and comedy is the difference between experience and intuition. In the experience we strive against every condition of our animal…

— Christopher Fry

From my point of view, humour and irony include tragedy; they're two sides of the same coin.

— Maurizio Cattelan

Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.

— James Thurber

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

— Angela Carter

The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more widely variable…

— Paul Di Filippo

There's comedy in tragedy, and tragedy in comedy. There's always light and dark in most jobs. Whether it's framed as a comedy, drama or…

— Harry Treadaway

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

— Barbara Stanwyck