“They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.” FeelsHumansHuman BeingsComedyBearsStriveCentsFulfilment Author:Stephen Fry
“It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.” ThinkingHumansHas BeensImportantIdeasRealShowsBodyComedyIntellectualSexualityPeculiarHuman BodyWilde Author:Stephen Fry
“Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.” HumansSaidFactsHuman BeingsAnswersResultsComedySadnessRemarriage Book:Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage Source: Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage
“Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing.” MenWorldHumansGamesSocialRoomsDealsStruggleComedyHuman NatureReflectionMen And WomenDrawingViolentDustCivilizedCrashRepresentationConvincingSocial LifeCorrectnessOuter Worlds Book:The Complete Works of George Meredith Source: The Complete Works of George Meredith
“Even in comedies, you've got to feel safe for things to just happen in a way that is natural and free, and recognizable as human.” WayFeelsHumansHappensNaturalComedySafe Author:Richard Gere