Actors Quote by Jon Lovitz

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

In comedy you have to be prepared and be specific and have a vision so your comedy feels organic and relatable and it's a…

— Sal Vulcano

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

Comedy is more difficult than drama. I think it's really difficult to make someone laugh because people have very different comedic sensibilities. In drama,…

— Aimee Garcia

Comedy is an ability to observe and see what's funny in a situation and be able to forget yourself enough to do it.

— Madeline Kahn

What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thing and then you break the assumption. That's…

— Bryan Cranston

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 is all about the character. When you're too focused on the gags, the character suffers, and you don't get the laugh. Comedy has…

— Brett Gelman

The bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of drama is to be truthful. You can be truthful and…

— Eddie Izzard

Your chemistry with your co-actors is more important in a comedy. You can't leave it to your performance alone. So many things have to…

— Tabu

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

In a comedy, after the day is done, you can figure out ways of how to make it even funnier for the next day.…

— Gael Garcia Bernal