Comedy Quote by Sam Shepard

I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy.

— Eric Drooker

Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them…

— Vivien Leigh

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, because if there's no laughs, it's pretty bad. But drama, if there's no reaction, you can say, 'Well, it's not their…

— Fred Willard

I think actors have a greater responsibility when doing comedy. It's as easy as anything to get cheap laughs, but that's not the idea…

— Peter Bowles

Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.

— Bernard Malamud

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 actually don't subscribe to the notion that comedy is easier than drama. When you're trying to be funny and you're not funny, that's…

— Tom Hollander

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

— Leslie Mann

Having written both comedy and drama, comedy's harder because the fear of failure's so much stronger. When you write a scene and you see…

— Rob Thomas

Comedy is more difficult. You can look at scenes when you're doing a drama like, “Maybe it works,” but in comedy, when you're doing…

— Jack Nicholson

Comedy can be more difficult than drama. It requires more attention to timing. In the theater, you're always dependent on the audience for the…

— David Alan Basche