‘The Help’ sheds light on a certain truth in America, but the tragedy is if we don’t get a chance to contrast it with other points of views. ‘The Butler’ does that, ‘Red Tails’ does that and that’s what ’96 Minutes’ does.
The appalling racial injustice inherent in the Trayvon Martin tragedy reminds us that there is still much to do.
In times of war, starvation, hunger and injustice, such tragedy can only be put aside if you allow yourself to be uplifted through music, film and dance.
In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
Tragedy without comedy is melodrama, and comedy without a higher purpose is vacant.
In a household tragedy, you are very much aware of being alone. It is something that is possible to grasp, and that is why it hurts so much. Because you are alone. I know a little about this.
The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using the slogans to see what’s really happened.
Well I would say that we’re regular people first of all and we’re normal and it’s obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we’re not immune to tragedy.
My parents have raised me to believe in a kind and a loving God and someone who cares about me, who is always there for me, and who would never wish harm or illness or any kind of tragedy upon me.
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.
There’s every reason to believe there will be further attacks attempted against the United States. For us to spend so much time patting ourselves on the back because we got bin Laden that we miss the next attack would be a terrible tragedy.
It would be a tragedy for democracy if dissent goes away.
In the West, it was believed that attitude and ambition saved you. In Africa, we had learned that no one was immune to capricious tragedy.
Primarily, ‘Black Girl/White Girl’ is the story of two very different, yet somehow ‘fated’ girls; for Genna, her ‘friendship’ with Minette is the most haunting of her life, though it is one-sided and ends in tragedy.
Good comedy films, if you listen to the score, the music is not trying to be funny. It’s always, in a way, underscoring the tragedy and struggle of the main character.
Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.
Poetry is not about personal pain or tragedy. It should resonate the society’s grief.
Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn’t original sin. He’s born with the tragedy that he has to grow up… a lot of people don’t have the courage to do it.
I was doing research on the Mormon handcart tragedy when I came across information about Brigham Young sending out missions to the Indians in 1855.
The acts of the human race on the world’s stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.
Because of my success in the private sector, I had the chance to run America’s largest city for 12 years, governing in the wake of its greatest tragedy.
Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That’s really where failure comes.
I’ve always had a profound conviction that great music is about joy, even in the face of tragedy.
I first read ‘An American Tragedy’ in college, and in my entire life I had never read anything so painful.
If we didn’t desensitize ourselves in some way, every day would feel like its own tragedy.
When people look at me outside, they think, ‘She’s so lucky,’ but no one’s exempt from tragedy.
Prolonged unemployment is a tragedy of broken lives, broken families, foreclosed homes, and life without health insurance.
I think it’s in a way my tragedy that people don’t see me for the serious roles I have played.
September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
The villain in ‘Call Me by Your Name’ is the tragedy of love – what seems to be part of the deal you sign with someone when you experience an amazing time with them.
Female hysteria is a subject I’m very fond of. I always try to bring it in somewhere. For me, it is the finest part of the line between comedy and tragedy.
Tragedy is the oldest form of theatre.
You use everything. You use tragedy you use everything.
People are overweight and starving at the same time. It’s a tragedy for both the individual and society.
I’ve had a very happy life, and although I have had tragedy, I’ve never suffered from any darkness.
I think that the relationship between two top-level athletes who are rivals is one of the most fascinating human relationships to explore. It’s always one atom away from being a tragedy.
One death is a tragedy, and a million deaths are a statistic.
Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It’s much too strict, but it’s a hell of a teacher.
Humor is not a sign of weakness. In fact, humor can be your greatest asset in the face of tragedy.
I was only a bridesmaid for my sister, and it was very calm and small, so I didn’t have any tragedy.
In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.
In ‘Guru,’ the business aspect is more of a layer and sub-text… to me, Harshad Mehta’s story is a tragedy, a classic Greek tragedy, where the greed of a lot of people got attached to him.
Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.
From my point of view, humour and irony include tragedy; they’re two sides of the same coin.
I feel like humor and tragedy are all on the same coin, and it’s all a part of the same process as humans as we assimilate reality.
The basis of tragedy is man’s helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man’s helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
If I told you the tragedy parts, we’d all sit here and cry.
But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the emotional pitch of the work, a regular sequence of more exciting and less exciting sections.
It’s a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else’s tragedy.
For me, the saddest thing in the world is always lost potential. That is always the most heartbreaking thing, when there’s something left to be mined from a situation or a person that goes unexplored; that’s a tragedy to me.
Greek tragedy was pre-Freudian, so every emotion has to be so raw; there are no psychological undertones.
There’s sadness to anyone that dies before their time, and specifically ones that seem to affect people in a positive way. It doesn’t matter if it’s Whitney Houston or a nameless, faceless person on the street. That’s just as big of a tragedy for me.
A lot of tragedy can befall us, but there’s always something else; there’s always hope.
Over the years, I’ve interviewed the victims, the guilty, the famous, the important, and the ordinary people affected by tragedy or good fortune. But strangely, it is not always the people in the spotlight that have stayed with me. It is often those on the periphery, the bit players in the drama, that continue to haunt.
The September 11th tragedy forced us all to look at the world in a different way, and it reminds us all of the importance of living every moment.
What having a Down’s syndrome child isn’t – and I feel very strongly about this – is a tragedy. All those pregnancy books you read when you are expecting refer to Down’s syndrome as if it were the worst possible outcome, and it’s not.
I trust people too much, and the other tragedy is I can’t say no.
Unfortunately, since the Sept. 11 tragedy, our business is not doing too well.
If 30 Australians drowned in Sydney Harbour, it would be a national tragedy. But when 30 or more refugees drown off the Australian coast, it is a political question.
Comedy and tragedy co-exist. You can’t have one without the other. I’m of the school that anything can be funny if seen from a comedic point of view.
There’s comedy even in tragedy. There’s comedy in life. And in ‘Castle’, we go for that comedy.
Bad days will come for each one of us, and the more we’ve thought these things through ahead of time, the better prepared we’ll be when tragedy strikes or struggles emerge.
Fear makes us do things we would otherwise never agree to do, and people can be emotionally manipulated into believing something during times of great stress and tragedy.
Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.
