Comedy Quote by Mike Nichols Download Open image “I have never understood people dividing things into dramas and comedies,” — Mike Nichols ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Comedy Dividing Drama People Theatre Understood
Dramas need to have a certain aesthetic that comedy just doesn't really seem to need to have. — Rob McElhenney Copy Share Image
Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to. — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment. — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
I've done so many dramas in my life, and people don't even know I came from comedy. — Kim Basinger Copy Share Image
There's certain people you want to see in comedies; there's certain people you just want to see in dramas. Not that there aren't individuals… — Marc Platt Copy Share Image
All the genres are so blended nowadays. There are lots of comedies out there that are more realistic than dramas, and some dramas out… — Madeline Zima Copy Share Image
My experience - and it might be just the kind of comedy that I do, which is usually sketch comedy - is that there's… — Bob Odenkirk Copy Share Image
I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy. — Leslie Mann Copy Share Image
The comedies are not a million laughs on the set. Its business and the dramas are business as well, really. When I'm writing it… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Stand-up comedy is a very hard thing on the spirit. There are people who transcend it, like Jack Benny and Steve Martin, but in… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
It's the hardest thing on earth to like yourself, and then when you do, it's a catastrophe. I mean, the people I know who… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
I used to say that winning the Oscar means being back at the Beverly Hills Hotel at 1 A.M. feeling empty. It's the industry… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
I'm an enormous fan of 'The West Wing.' It was one of the very few shows I would watch every week. — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
I don't expect anything from reviews. Sometimes I am bemused by them. — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
My first memory in the world is my gym teacher ripping my mother's necklace off her neck and throwing it out the window and… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
Whether something is a success or not has never had much to do with what you do next. — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
The reason that most British actors are better than most American actors in the end is that they don't make any money. At the… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
If you lose a parent, it never goes away. As a kid, I dreamed about my father coming back for 15 or 20 years.… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that I get worried. — Mike Nichols 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
