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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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.
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Park Shin-hye
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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
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Rafe Spall
First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.
Adam McKay
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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
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Bryce Dallas Howard
I think you're born with a comedy gene, and you can't teach timing, and you can't teach satire, pathos.
Brad Garrett
I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
Dan Buettner
Joining another big time rock band was the last thing I was looking for, but as the tour went on, I really dug playing to a lot of people, the band sounded great, and just being out there again, got me over my depression and so I decided to hop on board.
Matt Cameron
Soundgarden
I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.
Barbara Bush
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
