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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.

— Jeremy Irons

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.

— Twyla Tharp

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

— Ellen Page

The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more widely variable from person to person.

— Paul Di Filippo

I realized I do tragedy better than comedy.

— Paula Hawkins

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.

— Jason Reitman

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

— Angela Carter

I've always been taught to just play the truth of the situation. If comedy comes out of that, or drama, whatever comes out of it, at least I'm playing the truth of the moment-to-moment reality.

— Ving Rhames

✗Opposing Perspectives

People think comedians don't do drama. Comics are drama. And what is drama, as opposed to comedy? It's all the same to me.

— Sinbad

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.

— Jill Davis

There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.

— George Pierce Baker