Top 1200 Tragedy And Comedy Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action

I love comedy. There's just something so great about making people laugh. And for me, too, whenever I laugh, it just makes me feel so much better just watching a great comedy.

You aim comedy up. If comedy is aimed down, you're a jerk. You laugh at the powerful as a way of bringing them down to your level or bring yourself up to theirs. Donald Trump doesn't actually laugh. I've never seen him do anything other than smirking. He doesn't have a sense of humour. He's just mean.

The entire New York comedy scene has moved to L.A. - it's bled the New York comedy scene dry.

I would love to play a normal human being with a little bit of a comedic bend that had a love interest. I would love to explore comedy, like a half-hour kind of single-camera comedy. I think that would kind of suit me best.

Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.

What a tragedy is help where it harms what it supports!

It's difficult to follow your dream. It's a tragedy not to.

God's greatest tragedy is the creation of mankind.

Stories end in reverie, tragedy, or forgiveness.

Short on glamour and long on tragedy.

When tragedy strikes, feeling helpless is understandable.

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.

Years ago, there was a variety theatre in every British town, and people paid to go down and see it. Comedy was the main part of the theatre, and comedians earned a living by being funny. Now you have comedy in television instead. Comedians now have to be funny within a play.

Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.

For this is the tragedy of man circumstances change, but he does not.

Doing [a relationship comedy] with Sam [L. Jackson] was exciting. I've done a lot of comedies with a lot of comedy people. My peers. I've never worked with anybody of the kind of dramatic caliber of movie actor that Sam is. It was a little bit intimidating for the first day. Or two... Or the first week. Other than that, it was a joy.

I love watching audiences scream. I imagine it's the same joy that a director feels who has made a comedy when he or she is sitting at the back of a theater listening to the audience laugh. That sound of laughter is so sweet to a comedy director and that's exactly how a horror film feels when you hear the audience scream.

At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon.

Giving up is the ultimate tragedy.

I believe every abortion is a tragedy.

One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.

Just by nature, I think in comedy. I think in sketches and what have you. In every drama or action movie I've been in, I have to make a concerted effort not to turn it into a comedy. Every shot, before action is called and after cut is called, I'm usually in some goofy head space. It feels natural to me.

I think that comedy is a good defense for a child. Because you know childhood is a nightmare as it is. And so why not use comedy and being funny as a defense to get through your life as opposed to drugs, alcohol and good looks? Because those things are dangerous when your young.

There's a theory with comedy that you shouldn't do anything that's too topical in your specials because people won't be able to watch them in five years. But I look at Trump in the same way I look at Mr. T. I can watch comedy jokes about Mr. T in the '80s and still understand what they're talking about.

Get thee behind me, tragedy.

I did a 'Last Comic Standing' audition in 2006, where you're just performing for three people in a comedy club, in a big comedy club, and I remember them cutting me off, asking about my name in the middle of one of my jokes. Yeah, it's just real weird when you're doing stand-up in that type of sterile, unnatural setting.

The fact is that comedy is actually too serious to be taken seriously. It may be that comedy touches such deep emotions that people feel better if they can just dismiss it as trivial. Just take a big belly laugh. I have watched people laughing, and for a moment they look-and are-absolutely helpless. Vulnerability. You can be assaulted while you are laughing.

Flamenco is dark - it's about tragedy and intensity.

Everybody is different. Some comedy is more musical like Steven Wright. His is a pillar of comedy to me. He invented a whole form and all his jokes are poems. So it's different. I wanted to do it like George Carlin. Now I do it like me.

A lot of stand-up specials for cable are meant to glorify the comedian. They put you in a really beautiful theater, and sometimes they even blow a little smoke in there to make it misty and sweet. They make the guy look like he's a big rock star. But comedy's not really glamorous. It doesn't enhance comedy for it to look good.

Tragedy plus time equals humor.

The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.

Being made redundant is a personal tragedy.

One death is a tragedy, and a million deaths are a statistic.

Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.

Americans are waking up to the tragedy of abortions.

The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.

Socialism has been a great tragedy this century.

Tragedy is chic but discontent is dowdy.

That's the tragedy of the rich: They don't need anything.

Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless.

There are things in low comedy that make people uncomfortable, and there are things in high comedy that make people bored.

But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet.

There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.

I just saw a clip of Maria Bamford. She has a comedy show that was filmed and performed from her bed - the whole thing supposedly takes place in her bedroom at her parents house in Duluth, MN. I thought it was great and really strange - to have a comedy special without having to leave your bed.

The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

When the bad bleeds, then is the tragedy good.

I knew I just loved comedy, and I think it was my parents who initially brought up the notion of me trying to do stand-up. I think I actually tried writing jokes just at home, just kind of sitting around. But it seemed like a very real way to step into the world of comedy.

I like comedy when its mixed with action, it's just so much fun to do comedy with a bit of action, its fun to watch and also so much fun to do.

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability

Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.

I would say I've actually done a lot more comedy than I've done drama. It's weird the way that worked out, because when I came out of theater school I took myself way too seriously, so it's kind of ironic that I ended up sort of going down the comedy path.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

It's very, very corrupting to the spirit, doing comedy. And you have to be almost a saint, like Jack Benny was, like Steve Martin is, to avoid the corrupting of it, because there's very little work where the actual work and the reward are simultaneous, and comedy is that.

Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.