Famous quotes containing the words act and/or comedy:
“To act collectively is according to the spirit of our institutions.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It is comedy which typifies, where it is tragedy which individualizes; where tragedy observes the nice distinctions between man and man, comedy stresses those broad resemblances which make it difficult to tell people apart.”
—Harry Levin (b. 1912)