Comedy Quote by Julianne Moore

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

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

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

Comedy is harder than drama, because with comedy you're expecting a result..you make them laugh. [If] they ain't laughing then you're screwed.

— Billy Bob Thornton

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

Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you.

— Gabrielle Union

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

Drama is more universal. We all cry about the same stuff. But comedy is very specific: It depends on where you were born, how…

— Eugenio Derbez

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

— Betty White

Comedy is more difficult. You can look at scenes when you're doing a drama like, “Maybe it works,” but in comedy, when you're doing…

— Jack Nicholson

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

Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.

— Patrick Dempsey