Bernard Malamud Quotes

Humor is the mistress of tears.

If you want to reach any kind of poignancy or meaning a lot of times, coming from comedy is the best way to get there.

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

I think it's that much harder to make a good comedy than it is straight and apparently serious.

I naturally think in terms of comedy whenever I see anything because tragedy is so close to comedy, so I like to add the tragedy to the comedy or a little bit of comedy to the tragedy in order to make them both feel more real to me.

With comedy, you have to do it right. In a drama, there's a lot of different ways to succeed in a moment. But comedy comes from reality. You can't try to be funny.

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

I think that sometimes only comedians can reach the peaks of tragedy.

Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.

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

There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.

Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

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

I do find things funny. When you see life through the eyes of someone with a good sense of humor, which my grandmother did, life is a human comedy.

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

I find Spike Jones' movies to be really very inventive and funny, but they're really sad and touching and really key into the different facets of the human experience.

I think a good dollop of sadness is quite a useful thing in comedy sometimes. I think if everyone's happy all the time, it's a bit dull. It's like salt and caramel - you wouldn't imagine they would go well together, but they do.

I think the humor, when applied in the right amount, only serves to intensify the other emotions in a given song; it highlights them, makes them stand out.

Some of the best comedy comes from squeezing humour from tragedy and struggle, but the main pursuit of comedy should be laughter.

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.

I love comedy. It's something that I think Marvel does so well, and it's one of the reasons I love Marvel so much is the quips that you get: that kind of underlying everything and cutting through the very heavy emotional stuff.

I'm a sucker for a good sense of humor.

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a way to be likable yet to remain removed. When I speak up, it's not because I have any particular answers; rather, I have a desire to puncture the pretentiousness of those who seem so certain they do.