“One of the biggest misconceptions about me is that I'm a comedian, which I'm not. A comedian is someone who can stand up in front of an audience and make you laugh. I've never done stand-up and I never will. I'm a comic actor. My comedy comes through my characters.” DoneCharacterActorsAudienceLaughingComedyFrontsComicComedianMisconceptionMake You Laugh Author:Eugene Levy
“It would be great to be able to follow in the footsteps of Bill Murray. I really respect his ability as a comedian, obviously, but even more so as an actor.” Would BeAbleActorsAbilityBillsComedianFootsteps Author:Will Ferrell
“He was so good at everything he did. You can't call Ronnie Barker a comedian. He was an actor, and a great writer.” ActorsComedianGreat Writers Author:Bruce Forsyth
“If I want to keep working as an actor, I'm going to become a comedian who does fart jokes.” IfsWantDoeActorsJokesComedianFart Author:Peter Sarsgaard
“I always wanted to be a comedian and actor. I basically stumbled into the music medium, though. I'm OK, but that's about it. I like to think I'm good enough not to negatively affect the performance.” ThinkingEnoughWantedActorsPerformancesMediumsComedianGood Enough Author:Bo Burnham
“What great comedians, great comic writers, great comic actors do is that they just read the headlines with the right eyebrow position and it's funny.” ActorsPositionComicComedianEyebrowsHeadlines Author:David Salle
“My preference is live performance. Because you get the feedback. There's an energy. It's live theater. That's why I think actors like that. You know, musicians need it, comedians definitely need it. It doesn't matter what size and what club, whether it's 30 people in the club or 2,000 in a hall or a theater. It's live, it's symbiotic, you need it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsMatterActorsEnergyMusicianPerformancesTheaterSizeClubsComedianHallsPreferenceFeedbackLive PerformanceLive Theater Author:Robin Williams
“I don't really like actors. Actors are like terrible comedians with no punch lines. It's all about them. They talk about themselves all the time. They bore the sh - t out of you.” ActorsLinesTerribleComedianBores Author:Joe Rogan
“Why do all these people want [comedians] to be serious? The reason they want that is these are people who aren't funny. Anybody funny can be serious, but people who have no sense of humor, they can never be funny - and frankly, they're jealous. There's very few comic actors. Think about it. There aren't that many. It's hard because you have to be able to do both.” PeopleThinkingWantHardReasonAbleActorsSeriousComicComedianSense Of HumorJealous Author:Jon Lovitz
“I just want to kind of tackle every kind of form that exists in the comedy world; whether it be stand-up or hidden camera or parody. Kind of slap it in a movie with hip-hop artists and actors, comedians and girls. I just want to do something fun.” WorldWantKindFormArtistGirlActorsFunComedyCamerasHip HopHipsComedianHopsSlapParodyHip Hop Artist Author:Pauly Shore
“Growing up and being a kid, I knew that creativity was at the heart of what I wanted to do. I always had this feeling of wanting to be a comedian and wanting to be an actor.” HeartFeelingsKidsWantedActorsCreativityGrowing UpGrowingComedianBeing A Kid Author:Chris Gethard