Top 1200 Tragedy And Comedy Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

I think Georges Feydeau said comedy is just tragedy speeded up.

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

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

As an actor, you can do everything. I grew up in the theater, and you could do a musical, a comedy, a tragedy.

When death comes too near, comedy and tragedy fall silent.

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer.

Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago.

Comedy and tragedy co-exist. You can't have one without the other. I'm of the school that anything can be funny if seen from a comedic point of view.

The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life.

One of the wonderful things about Shakespeare is that he trusted an audience to move quickly with him. One moment tragedy, the next comedy.

A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy.

I think my strength as a performer is my ability to straddle the fence between comedy and tragedy.

The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy.

It's a tragedy. It was tragedy for Freddie Gray and the family. It was a tragedy for the city. And we're still trying to figure out how it happened and why it happened.

An actor must communicate his author's given message--comedy, tragedy, serio- comedy; then comes his unique moment, as he is confronted by the looked-for, yet at times unexpected, reaction of the audience. This split second is his; he is in command of his medium; the effect vanishes into thin air; but that moment has a power all its own and, like power in any form, is stimulating and alluring.

I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.

Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama.

Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.

Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have.

I think if you understand your role, comedy won't create any tragedy.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

It's so laughable that it's somewhere beyond comedy and right into tragedy again.

It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

The more serious the situation, the funnier the comedy can be. The greatest comedy plays against the greatest tragedy. Comedy is a red rubber ball and if you throw it against a soft, funny wall, it will not come back. But if you throw it against the hard wall of ultimate reality, it will bounce back and be very lively. Very, very few people understand this.

Good comedy films, if you listen to the score, the music is not trying to be funny. It's always, in a way, underscoring the tragedy and struggle of the main character.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

You can perceive life as tragic, or you can laugh at the tragedy of it and that turns it into comedy. It doesn't change the circumstances.

Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death. That is why the spectacle of tragedy has always filled men, not with despair, but with a sense of hope and exaltation.

I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.

Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.

I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.

It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.

Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play.

God always comes up with a third act twist -- and we won't know until we die whether the play was a comedy or a tragedy.

every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act of all.

Tragedy isn't an easy thing to kill. It takes more than a turtle. Tragedy must be destroyed by someone willing to be swallowed by it, willing to be broken, torn out of the flesh, but able to return to it. Someone must be able to shatter the tragic from within and exit into comedy, able to rip a hole so wide that a train of souls, a parade, could follow after, banging drums and throwing candy as they strolled into the sun.

If your timing is not correct then comedy will become tragedy.

One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

What I'm interested in is happiness with a full awareness of the tragedy of life, the potential tragedy that lurks around every corner and the tragedy that actually is life.

Chess is a game sufficiently rich in meaning that it is easily capable of containing elements of both tragedy and comedy.

I will do comedy until the day I die: inappropriate comedy, funny comedy, gender-bending, twisting comedy, whatever comedy is out there.

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

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

I never did comedy or tragedy. I just live a situation and my mission is to entertain people.

Our everyday lives exist with comedy and tragedy next to each other.

A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary.

Fate never knows when comedy ends and tragedy begins.

Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.

Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.

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

I look for every opportunity to mix comedy and horror and tragedy. I love catching audiences off-guard.