Anguish Quote by John Logan

I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters. They're the reason I got into movies.

— Nicolas Cage

Somehow even tragedies seem less tragical, when you are the actors in them, than they look to outsiders

— Hannah Whitall Smith

I don't think anybody deals well with tragedy or grief, but maybe my characters are particularly bad at it. Which is why I love…

— Dan Chaon

Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch your own drama and realizing it as a mind-created fiction designed to create you a sense of…

— Eckhart Tolle

I thought as an actress I would be able to have broader emotional experiences, but then I quickly figured out that I wanted to…

— Martha Nussbaum

As an actor, those kinds of really intense, emotionally packed, dark things, those always very appeal to me greatly.

— India Eisley

I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the…

— Eddie Izzard

The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are…

— Ed Asner

When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals.

— Sylvester Stallone

I'm an actor, and I don't look at myself as providing comic relief. I have done diverse and dark roles such as a psycho,…

— Boman Irani

I have been through and seen so many dramas and traumas and been in so many situations that I can probably interpret a few…

— James Arthur

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

— Steve Coogan