“I think the first rule of comedy is that it has to be funny.”
Nigel Cole

“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.”
Mel Brooks

“I'm scared of comedy. I thinks it demands stage experience and I've never been before the footlights. I wish I had. Do you know, I have a curious recurrent dream that I am in a stage play and most embarrassed - like those dreams when one is caught in extreme negligee in some public place.”
Norma Shearer

“Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.”
Christian Bale

“It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.”
Jack Lemmon