Humor Quote by Nikki Cox

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

— Betty White

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

I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy.

— Leslie Mann

To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.

— Nikki Cox

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

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

— Patrick Dempsey

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

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

There's timing in drama. You have to have a sense of rhythm. But the real thing that lends yourself to drama as opposed to…

— Bob Odenkirk

I think when someone who's known for doing drama does a comedy but just tries to be funny, that's a mistake.

— Steve Carell

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