Comedy Sayings & Quotes
These comedy sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theatre has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen. - Henri Matisse
God writes a lot of comedy, the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. - Garrison Keillor
The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy. - Oscar Wilde
Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail. - Benito Mussolini
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humour and hurt. - Erma Bombeck
The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass. - Sir Laurence Olivier
We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the belly laugh and the dozen other labels for the roll 'em in-the-aisles gagerissimo. This is the kind of laugh that delights actors, directors and producers, but dismays writers of comedy because it is the laugh that often dies in the lobby. - James Thurber
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
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. - Charlie Chaplin
We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look. - Aldous Huxley
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