I've had a very happy life, and although I have had tragedy, I've never suffered from any darkness.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
How could I share with you how I felt when two towers that I loved, two pieces of steel and glass and concrete fell down, when actually they took with them thousands of human lives? That is the actual tragedy. But those towers were almost human for me. I was in love with them, and that's why I married them with a tight rope.
The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.
We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy.
Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
I enjoy reporting on triumph over tragedy.
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested.
The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.
I was only a bridesmaid for my sister, and it was very calm and small, so I didn't have any tragedy.
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in March 2011 was an immense tragedy that sparked a global response. The international community came forward with aid to the victims and came together to address the broader concerns about nuclear security and safety.
The memories of the Munich games for me are of triumph and tragedy.
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
'Fargo' is a tragedy with a happy ending. So you need to have that tragic underpinning, that all of this could be avoidable, and that's what makes it tragic. It's about the use of violence, and the fact that the tension in anticipation of violence and the tension in anticipation of a laugh are sort of the same.
A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people.
Normally street children are shown in terms of the tragedy of their lives - which is true - but there's also another dimension: their wisdom, dignity and enormous capacity for survival.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Comedy comes from tragedy, and being Iranian in America from 1979 on had been quite tragic. In stand-up comedy, I was able to take the reality and exaggerate it.
We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.
Everybody has a tragedy or two in their lives.
Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.
When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.
I think art can reflect tragedy.
We're all capable of being more than we presently are, and the effort that it takes and the will that it takes and sometimes the trauma and tragedy that it takes to force us into that kind of growth is the story of our lives.
Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.
I think that we should take the tragedy that happened in Newtown and have a full comprehensive dialogue about all issues, whether it has to do with mental health, whether it has to do with the social decline of our young people and some of the things that they are exposed to, whether it has to do with the firearms and guns.
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
I believe every abortion is a tragedy.
With 'Wind River,' I became fascinated with the notion of how you overcome a tragedy - accepting it, making whatever peace you can with it - without ever knowing what really happened.
I think divorce is a tragedy, traumatic and horribly painful for everybody. That's why I wrote 'Smart Women.' I want kids to read that and to think what life might be like for their parents. And I want parents to think about what life is like for their kids.
I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.
Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.
As an actor, you can do everything. I grew up in the theater, and you could do a musical, a comedy, a tragedy.
