Anguish Quote by Shelley Winters

Comedy is like horror - you have to shock something in the viewer's system to make them feel it.

— Jonathan Krisel

As with anything that involves emotional pain, comedy isn't too far behind. There's that element of no matter how painful something is - as…

— Ben Miller

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. Making people laugh one moment and the…

— Steve Coogan

If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And…

— Sid Caesar

I feel comedy is one of the strongest emotions that an actor portrays and the most powerful one too.

— Rajpal Yadav

You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage and cry.…

— Penelope Wilton

I can wax boringly about the role of comedy in mitigating pain. For so many comedians, comedy comes out of personal despair. I'm not…

— Tim Minchin

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

“Humor is therapeutic. Even if you have no intention of ever getting up on a stage, learning how to turn negative, painful life experiences…

— Judy Carter

In comedy you feel you need to go back to the theatre every now and again, you feel you need to go back to…

— Mathew Baynton

“Tragedy and comedy involve an audience, so they must give--sharing themselves to elicit tears and laughter. Melodrama is not such a strategist. It meets…

— Yiyun Li

Comedy is such a personal thing. Everybody can cry at the same thing, but it's a lot harder to get everyone to laugh at…

— Colin Mochrie