Top 1200 Tragedy And Comedy Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

A person who is a comedian does comedy in real life, too. But then there are others, too, who are very good in real life, but can't perform in front of the camera. They get nervous. Nevertheless, an inborn comedian does comedy whether he is in films or not.

Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?

I want to show people you can overcome a tragedy.

Comedy is delivered to people in the same form that music is being delivered: by YouTube. People are sharing music and comedy in the same way now.

I enjoy reporting on triumph over tragedy.

There is an American tragedy in which we all have played a part.

If there's one regret I have of my time in comedy it's that I really I was so obsessed with improv for so many years and I exclusively did improv for the first 6 years or 7 years. I was doing comedy and then I started doing solo work and stand up, a bit of writing, making videos, and really going into it on that end.

I have never been one to run when tragedy strikes.

Man's tragedy is that when he can do something, in the end he will always do it

The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Even the shows or movies that we know are not going to change the world, I love this. I love 'em. I'm a movie fan. I'm a nerd of any kind. I love a big studio comedy as much as I love the teeniest tiniest of indie. I'm not a snob in that way. I really do like a big, big studio comedy.

Magic likes a good tragedy, too.

Everyone deals with tragedy in his own way.

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.

Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.

You don't have to know about 'Hippolytus' to listen to 'Tragedy.'

I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.

When you go through a tragedy with someone, the bond is stronger.

It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.

People can learn the tragedy of war from me.

The emphasis in 'Notting Hill' was perhaps, I thought, slightly more on the romance than on the comedy. But I think 'Mickey Blue Eyes' is maybe slightly more on the comedy. And the tone on 'Mickey Blue Eyes,' it's a far sillier film.

A life without tragedy would not be worth living.

The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.

Tibet's a tragedy. It's an insult to human decency.

Suicide is not a blot on anyone’s name; it is a tragedy

The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach

I'm a big fan of PlayStation 4. I like watching movies, TV shows, comedy specials, and listening to comedy albums and music. I'm also a big fan of getting coffee with a friend or catching up on the phone with people I've known for years, people who keep me grounded, who knew me before.

If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.

Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.

The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

I am just at tragedy right now.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

I think Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have done so much for women in comedy in the sense that they've normalized it. You don't think, 'I'm going to watch that comedy starring a woman,' you think, 'I'm going to watch that funny show.' They refuse to play the foils for men, or be reduced to the butt of every joke, and I love that about both of them.

It's completely unsexy [Yello, "Oh Yeah" 1985]. It does capture that weird '80s materialism and "We're gonna get it on now" vibe. But it's a very juvenile approach. It also became a weird signal for comedy, in the sense that when you heard the song, it meant comedy was happening on screen. I feel like this song was probably done in a couple of minutes in a studio.

That the play is the tragedy, “Man,” And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.

Punk changed everything. It blew away all the dull, pompous stuff that happened before, like glam rock. Kids were getting involved in causes like Rock Against Racism and they needed music that reflected that. Something similar was happening in comedy too, with the Comedy Store and the alternative scene that I got involved in.

I don't come from a comedy background or a stand-up background, but I think that sometimes there's a misconception that an actor who works primarily in comedy is a comedian. There's nothing wrong with being a comedian, but I'm absolutely not that. I can't think of anything more terrifying than doing stand-up!

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

I've actually always wanted to write like a one-person show that was sort of a romantic comedy - a show that was kind of cynical about romance and marriage but ultimately embraced it. Because I feel like comedy is always cynical, inherently, because it's contrarian.

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.

Every time there's a tragedy, everything goes up.

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not.

With a horror movie, you want to know where the engine of the fear is coming from. Like in comedy, you want to know what the engine that's going to make the comedy - where that's coming from.

The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.

The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.

The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.

The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.

It always interested me that 'Goodness Gracious Me' and 'The Kumars,' when shown around the world, were referred to as British comedy. It was only here that they were referred to as Asian comedy, even though I always felt it was very British in its humour and structure.

Comedy is like a very cokey, druggy sugar. You get hits of comedy, and it's very, "More, give me more of that stuff," because serotonin is being released in the brain. So it's basically, everyone becomes serotonin junkies, and we are serotonin dealers. And that's what being a comedian is about.

Performing comedy in San Francisco to begin with is pretty wild. You've got to - you've got the human game preserve to play off of. And it's a lot of great characters everywhere. You work off that, and then you play the rooms, and eventually you get to a point where you're playing a club that is a comedy club, with other comics.

That's the tragedy of our country. Everyone is an inexperienced politician.

There's a trench coat and a tragedy in your future.

The tragedy wasn’t that Stanford White died, but that I lived.

People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.

I consider tragedy the highest form of art.

It's a great tragedy when the Bible is interpreted by those who are not in love.