“- Fan in Lobby: Can I talk to you about an idea for a film I have?
- Sandy Bates: This is not the place.
- Fan in Lobby: Do you have a moment, please? It's a comedy based on that whole Guyana mass suicide.”
Woody Allen - Sandy Bates

“As a fellow playwright you understand how narrow the line dividing comedy and tragedy.”

Walter Kingsford - Colbert

“Comedy is tragedy plus time!”
Alan Alda - Lester

“The last thing to determine conclusively is whether you're in a comedy or a tragedy. Tragedy, you die. Comedy, you get hitched.”
Dustin Hoffman - Professor Jules Hilbert

“I used to think that my life was a tragedy, but now I realize, it's a comedy.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Arthur Fleck