Quotes About Acting

...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.

When I worked with Robin Williams, now there is improv! He is just as funny as you think he is. We did at least five or six takes of every scene, improvising every scene differently. He was a riot.

I'd basically have trouble with any job that doesn't require me to wear silly clothes and talk in funny voices.

If I want to act relaxed, it's going to take all my cunning, skill, and concentration.

I was often getting hired to play sociopaths and psychopaths and stuff, which is really funny.

I have a really dry sense of humor. I don't think it's funny when people wink at the camera. That's more of an actor thing, just committing to whatever the thing is.

The accents are really really funny. I think I could convince somebody I was from New Zealand.

I never saw myself as a comedian. I saw myself as a guy who can act funny.

James Caan told me at the end of filming 'Elf' that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny - and I never was.

I'm actually a thin serious person but I play fat and funny, but only for the movies.

I've been blessed to have done different roles, but I don't think people see me as funny.

It's funny, people talk about the characters they play and who do you sort of see yourself as or which ones maybe were closest to you and in some ways.

There are many different ways of being funny. I'm not sure that there's so many different ways of being dramatic.

I read a lot of scripts that I just don't find very funny.

I do miss sometimes being onstage, because when I do film and television, it's usually so brief and funny.

A director recommended me for the role on 'Soap.' They said, 'She plays heavy roles, murderesses and the like.' He said, 'On stage, she could be very very funny.

I want to do drama - no one really sees that. People just think I'm the funny guy and I can't do anything else, and that's just not true.

A lot of times, as a clown, you find acting for a reason. It's a way to exercise yourself. If you're funny, you test yourself.

Before people figured out I was funny, I got cast quite a bit as either a rapist or serial killer or the guy who catches those people.

If you play comedic scenes like they're really serious, then it's so much more funny than if you're going for a laugh.

You never think of films being really creepy that you're in because you just remember the funny stuff.

I thought I was supposed to have a fake six-pack in this scene

For me to act natural and real but also try to be funny while doing that is hard.

I haven't played Hedda Gabler yet, but maybe if I did I might find the funny bits.