Ben Stiller Quotes

The energy in a comedy is very serious. Somebody said comedy is a tragedy plus time. When you have a tragedy, for example, like this, like, 'We're going to die,' and you have time, like, five hours to die, it becomes a comedy.

For me, comedy and drama are all the same thing.

I always found that drama, really good drama, has a lot of comedy in it.

I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.

I can't imagine getting bored with comedy or thinking comedy is beneath us suddenly.

I love comedy that seems kind of a little bit absurd.

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

Every time I think about writing, comedy doesn't interest me in the slightest. I can play comedy, but I don't think in terms of comic dialogue.

Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.

The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.

I'm not temperamentally into high comedy. I'm not a Noel Coward kind of girl.

I love good comedy. I don't like bad comedy.

My instincts are not comedic.

Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.

Making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy.

Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes.

There seems to be more comedy for comedy's sake.

I guess I don't have much interest in writing straight drama. So whatever subject matter I choose will ultimately be dealt with in a comic way.

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

I'm not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.