Quotes About Acting

Even in college I tended to get cast in the comedies more. It was what I liked doing.

It's hard for me to even watch comedies I'm in.

I'll read, like, ten scripts, and then sometimes if I'm lucky, there will be two or three scripts that I like, and sometimes they'll all be dramas, or they'll all be comedies, or there will be two dramas and a comedy, and then I'll go for whatever. If I have to audition, I'll audition. If it's an offer, great.

If I read something and respond to the role, that's what happens, and if those happen to be a few comedies in a row, or not, so be it.

I don't see myself doing any comedies. I like comedies as much as anyone else; I just don't really have a desire to do them.

I don't mind playing Nazis, but I'll only play them in comedies. I wouldn't play a serious Nazi.

I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.

I do more comedy, actually. I don't do the classic novelas.

Working with Lucille Ball was just a master class in how to do comedy.

I approach a comedy the same way I do a drama. I try to make it as real as possible.

It's fun once in a while to do a serious part but I really enjoy doing comedy because I love to laugh.

I think that in any role you have, whether TV or film, it's hard to do comedy and drama within one story.

I can't learn lines comfortably unless I have it done out loud with someone else.

I'm excited to play any character that is based in reality. And I'd be even more excited if I can add a comic element to my role.

It's a cliche, but it's true that all the fun lies in baddies, grotesques and comic roles.

It wasn't that I left acting; it's just that I put it aside while I set about becoming a comic.

Most people haven't seen my dramatic work, but I did 10 years of theater before I ever became a comic. I'm just better known for comedy.

I did plays in high school, and I usually got cast in the comic role, which I really enjoyed.

No actor can be a complete artist without trying his/her hand at comic roles.

It's always been a dream for me to play a comic book character.

Everything that I am going to do as an actress doesn't matter where it's coming from. It just has to be interesting.

My first acting job was a Breck commercial.

I want to balance commercial and off-beat roles.

When I was little, my mom was an actress, and she still is now, and she'd go on commercial auditions, and if they needed a mom and a son, she'd take me along, and that's how I got started.