Quotes About Contrast

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. That's the comedy that I like.

There is something irresistibly funny about a funeral. More basically, I think the point is that beyond the deepest tragedy, there is laughter. Even in the midst of tragedy, there is always the possibility for it.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

You never have a comedian who hasn't got a very deep strain of sadness within him or her. Every great clown has been very near to tragedy.

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

For a comedienne, you have to have a little tragedy or a dark side, just not too much. Otherwise it's too disruptive.

I realized I do tragedy better than comedy.

I often find in doing tragedy, or doing very serious material, that there's a level of anxiety that builds that often leads to laughter in some cases. In between takes, there can often be a lightness.

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

When you watch one person on stage trying to surmount their fate only in that very action to embody it, it's called a tragedy. When you see a lot of people doing it on stage, it's called 'Fawlty Towers.'

A comic book and a straight drama all have the same elements. If you're playing tragedy, you have to be aware of the comedy; if you're playing comedy, you have to be aware of the tragedy. If you're playing comic book, you have to be aware of the reality.

I think comedy's harder to pull off on the screen than on the stage, anyway. Tragedy is easier on the screen... oddly enough.

I find that very appealing: the blurring of the lines between what's funny and what's tragic. And what's ordinary and what's not - the big things in the small things.

Stuffed animals are sad and scary; they have humorous and tragic qualities.

I love that he's both comic and tragic, and highly poetic but also just dirty at times. ... I love that within the world of Shakespeare's plays, the whole world is sort of encompassed in a certain way.

I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous.

The nice thing with Shakespeare from a modern point of view is that a lot of stuff that was tragic for him can read as comic for us.

We want to ascribe a kind of tragic grimness to people, but people are funny.

Even the most tragic moments can have moments of comedy.

What some folks find funny, other folks find tragic.

Any tragic memory I have I also think is really funny. On any given day, I can think about how horrible something is and also how ridiculous and over-the-top it is.

In my own works I am an obsessionist. Though I write humorous music too, much of it has been obsessed by death and the tragic.