“ If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration. ”
- Robert Moses- Copy
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“ Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without any success. ”
- Val Kilmer- Copy
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“ I can't think of anyone who knew how to play comedy better than Ronnie Barker and I count myself enormously fortunate to have known and worked with him. ”
- Michael Palin- Copy
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“ Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue. ”
- Woody Allen- Copy
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“ It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is. ”
- Jack Lemmon- Copy
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“ Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. ”
- Horace Walpole- Copy
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“ All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. ”
- Charlie Chaplin- Copy
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“ The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. ”
- Horace Walpole- Copy
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“ The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. ”
- James Thurber- Copy
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“ Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself. ”
- Lita Grey Chaplin- Copy
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“ Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface. ”
- Paul Goodman- Copy
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“ Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear. ”
- James Thurber- Copy
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“ Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith. ”
- Christopher Fry- Copy
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“ I always loved comedy, but I never knew it was something you could learn to do. I always thought that some people are born comedians … just like some people are born dentists. ”
- Paul Reiser- Copy
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“ If people don't want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them. Our comedies are not to be laughed at. ”
- Samuel Goldwyn- Copy
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“ In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears. ”
- Constance Rourke- Copy
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“ Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. ”
- Sholom Aleichem- Copy
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“ Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. ”
- Charlie Chaplin- Copy
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“ One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three. ”
- Elbert Hubbard- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously. ”
- Tim Allen- Copy
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“ It's a very difficult thing to master. I don't think that many people have the light touch that comedy commands. ”
- Beatrice Arthur- Copy
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“ Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth. ”
- Stephen Baldwin- Copy
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