Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn. – Irvin S. Cobb

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A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If its in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it. – Ivan Reitman

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