“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”
Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) British comic actor and filmmaker
As quoted in his obituary in The Guardian (28 December 1977)
On how he transitioned into filmmaking in “Culture Clash’s Richard Montoya becomes a movie multitasker” https://www.sacbee.com/entertainment/movies-news-reviews/article18414926.html in The Sacramento Bee (2015 Apr 13)
“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”
Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) British comic actor and filmmaker
As quoted in his obituary in The Guardian (28 December 1977)
Kenpachiro Satsuma (1947) Japanese actor
As quoted by David Milner, "Kenpachiro Satsuma Interview III" http://www.davmil.org/www.kaijuconversations.com/satsum3.htm, Kaiju Conversations (December 1995)
“I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. … You get dirty and besides the pig likes it.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Initially attributed to Cyrus S. Ching in Time, Vol. 56 (1950), p. 21.
Misattributed
Variant: Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.