Martin McDonagh Quotes
I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we? We are all extreme in one way or another at times and that's what drama, since the Greeks, has dealt with.
Martin McDonagh
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You know, if you look all my stuff... If you go back to 'Saturday Night Live,' my stuff always has music, even a bunch of my comedy stuff - like in 'Shrek,' the donkey is always singing. Music is always there.
Eddie Murphy
I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.
Paget Brewster
It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama.
Adam Arkin
Many fans were surprised when they learned that the little girl in drama 'Stairway To Heaven' was me.
Park Shin-hye
I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.
Oscar Isaac
I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world.
Rachel Dratch
I did a drama degree, went to secretarial college, then got a job with a theatre company in Birmingham. It's been a slow burn, which doesn't seem to have gone out.
Tamsin Greig
First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.
Adam McKay
I think I've played a lesbian about five times. The first one was with Helen Baxendale in a drama called 'The Investigator,' about the conditions lesbians had to live under in the army in Britain, which was based on a true story.
Laura Fraser
There is something about my aura or essence, or whatever, that draws the ex-wife characters to me. I don't seek them out, but people tend to think of me for that particular archetype, or whatever you want to call it, and I don't mind it. I think there is a strength to it.
Natalie Zea
I like to do comedy. It's my real passion. I want to make people laugh.
Gad Elmaleh
I love edgy comedy. 'Coming to America' still gets me and 'Friday.' I watch old Richard Pryor stand-up on VHS, too.
Tamron Hall
What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.
Barbara De Angelis
I love doing sitcoms. I love doing comedy. I love the whole shooting match.
Rachael Harris
Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.
Omar Bongo
The wonderful thing about drama school is that it stretches you in a way the industry doesn't.
Naomie Harris
I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed.
Carl Reiner
I like that whole cop-comedy type of drama.
Adam G. Sevani
Any decent kind of world, you wouldn't need all these rules.
John Updike
When infants aren't held, they can become sick, even die. It's universally accepted that children need love, but at what age are people supposed to stop needing it? We never do. We need love in order to live happily, as much as we need oxygen in order to live at all.
Marianne Williamson
I feel like a little beast when I'm onstage, and I feel like my fans have that little beast inside of them, too: this hunger for life.
Becky G
Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.
Scott Westerfeld
I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we? We are all extreme in one way or another at times and that's what drama, since the Greeks, has dealt with.
Martin McDonagh
