Arcs Quote by Jessica Biel

It doesn't matter if it's a drama or a comedy, the need to get the emotion and the character arc across is way harder…

— Colin Farrell

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

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 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

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

My experience - and it might be just the kind of comedy that I do, which is usually sketch comedy - is that there's…

— Bob Odenkirk

Drama is a complete meal, vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates. It's a slow burn thing. It's got an arc. Comedy is more like coke.

— Eddie Izzard

I think people who do comedy tend to do it well, and to do it painfully and truthfully. So making the leap to drama…

— Sandra Bullock

Doing drama is a very welcome departure from comedy. Although I love doing both, I like to change it up a bit once in…

— Paul Butcher

There's timing in drama. You have to have a sense of rhythm. But the real thing that lends yourself to drama as opposed to…

— Bob Odenkirk

Doing drama is, in a sense, easier. In doing comedy, if you don't get that laugh, there's something wrong.

— Betty White

Comedy prepared me for drama. There are a couple techniques you can think of. One of my acting teachers said that comedy is like…

— Craig Robinson