Comic Quote by Mignon McLaughlin

Why do all these people want [comedians] to be serious? The reason they want that is these are people who aren't funny. Anybody funny…

— Jon Lovitz

When I was a kid, I wanted to be serious, like Daniel Day-Lewis. No one really dreams of being a comic actor, do they?…

— Chris O'Dowd

It's hard to be serious in life.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Maybe the best comics are written by people who really are at ease in the comic world.

— Terry Pratchett

I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's best trick is…

— Richard Russo

That's the great test: if you're going to be a great comic writer, not a humorist, you've got to take it into the throat…

— Howard Jacobson

I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.

— Alan Rickman

Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?

— Don DeLillo

It hardly matters for me whether the role is comic or a serious one.

— Mukesh Tiwari

The world is not entirely comic and it's not entirely dramatic. You have a laugh and then someone finds a lump and you deal…

— Ricky Gervais

When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a serious writer. I was…

— Anthony Burgess

Life is funny and it is interesting how we make it as serious as possible.

— Elisha Cuthbert