Comedy Quote by Marco Roth Download Open image “Comedy has traditionally been about fear of embarrassment.” — Marco Roth ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Comedy Embarrassment Fear Humor Shame
I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. Making people laugh one moment and the… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
My theory about comedians is that their greatest fear is other people laughing at them. So comedy is an attempt to control and manipulate… — Ben Miller Copy Share Image
I certainly do believe that a lot of comedy comes from awkwardness and embarrassment - pointing out the ways things are uncomfortable. Definitely the… — Christian Finnegan Copy Share Image
It's quite frightening; the business of trying to be funny is very hairy. In comedy, the potential for humiliation is huge. Trying to be… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
The embarrassment of a situation can, once you are over it, be the funniest time in your life. And I suppose a lot of… — Miranda Hart Copy Share Image
I have my own difficulty with movies in which the suffering of the characters is too real, and many find it difficult to watch… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep… — Will Durst Copy Share Image
My loneliness...still comes over me sometimes...It's a liminal, lost sensation of having wandered wide, endless boulevards, among rows of orange trees, winter butterflies, seasons… — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
I keep thinking my father gave me Turgenev, and then I realize at some point, Oh, this is a false memory. I mean, that's… — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
“When he picked out the [gravesite] plot, my father had joked that he was moving, at last, to the suburbs.” — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
There are people who are very good at disconnecting themselves and becoming other people, and separating from their family lives and going on. They… — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
Writing books is one of the ways that human beings deal with loss, especially when you don't have religious consolation available. — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
The contemporary memoir is playing an important role in at least just bringing certain relationships out into the open in American society, and also… — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
I really wanted to get out of that cycle in our family where somebody's taking revenge on somebody for some slight that happened thirty… — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
There is something to be said for the openness to form, and literary form because it forces you to actually think about the other… — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
My story follows a very classic tragic paradigm in which you learn things too late for them to be of any use, and by… — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
Thomas Mann used to write education novels and now you can write an education memoir, and there are all these memoirs coming out now… — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
'Mad TV' is one of my most favorite shows of all time and is a huge part of my obsession with sketch comedy. — Shane Dawson Copy Share Image
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
“Men circle like bees around honey, buzzing to communicate their sexual despair.” — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
You can't cheat comedy. You know, it either is going to be there on the day you capture or it's not. — Justin Lin Copy Share Image
I think if I have any kind of unique gift, it's more in the comedy area than it is in the dramatic area. — Susan Sullivan Copy Share Image
I always worked on holidays when I had to wait tables and stuff like that, so I'm used to it, but now I just… — Chris Redd Copy Share Image
There's nothing like the energy in a small comedy club room or a small theater when it's going really well. I can see everybody's… — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
