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When you do a drama, you are challenged to trust your inner voice much more. Because when you put a comedy in front of even a 25-person screening, you know whether it's working or not. The barometer is overt.

— Shawn Levy

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

For some reason, comedy just comes easily to me, and I feel like I can do it. I don't have any doubt. When I work on drama, there's always a sense of 'Did I find this person's truth at the bottom of this?' And it's hard to tell sometimes.

— Andrea Anders

I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight.

— Will Ferrell

I feel more comfortable in drama. Comedy is a high-wire act. I find it stressful. It's a precision science in a way.

— Colin Firth

I think that... I would say that sometimes people get afraid of when you're balancing comedy and drama.

— Jim Rash

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

— Jenna Elfman

You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it.

— Julianne Moore

Because I've done so many hour dramas, people tend to think of you as more of a dramatic actor and don't see you as doing comedy.

— Amy Acker

✗Opposing Perspectives

Doing drama is, in a sense, easier. In doing comedy, if you don't get that laugh, there's something wrong.

— Betty White

Comedy has to be so much cleaner than drama. You can't layer it in the way you can a dramatic performance. Which is why it's more difficult than drama - you don't have so many tricks.

— Grant Bowler

I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy.

— Leslie Mann