Amusing Quote by Rupert Holmes

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

— Chuck Jones

Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I've played farce on the stage, but I have never played any sort of comedy on the screen.

— Peter O'Toole

Life is too serious to do farce comedy.

— Buster Keaton

Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too.

— Irving Howe

The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with the philosophical…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The difference between farce and humour in literature is, I suppose, that farce strums louder and louder on one string, while humour varies its…

— V. S. Pritchett

In order for comedy to be funny you have to play the truth of the moment. But if you're not being completely truthful to…

— Stephen Root

Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way…

— Christopher Walken

Comedy is all about the character. When you're too focused on the gags, the character suffers, and you don't get the laugh. Comedy has…

— Brett Gelman

I don't play comedy as comedy. That would be the biggest trap. I think about the characters and their situations. Then you don't have…

— Penelope Cruz