With comedy, it's a combination of knowing the comedic beat was good - it made you laugh, it made people on the crew laugh. With drama, you do something deep and if your stuff was really effective, the ultimate result is silence. Silence is not necessarily. . . that would also be the result if you sucked.
Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.
I do find comedy difficult. I don't know why. Maybe I think about it too much. There's a tremendous amount of pressure to be funny.
I think my life has everything, you know; it has comedy, has drama, has action.
I didn't know anything about acting, much less about acting in a comedy.
As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.
When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
As an actor, when you're doing comedies, you're around fantastic, funny people and you hopefully have a really good time doing it.
I don't know about the romantic comedy route, although never say never.
So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.
I did Scottish footballer of the year this year, attempted to do some comedy at that. Not the brightest people in the world. There were seven O-Levels in that room, and they were all mine.
My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.
You have to assume that you're talking to the most intelligent, tuned-in audience you could ever get. That's the way you're going to get the best out of people. Whether they know you or not shouldn't matter for comedy. They should get to know you pretty quickly. and they should be having a good time pretty quickly.
When I got into comedy, which was really for acting, I would see the guys who would be considered great today. They were great, but after a few minutes I could get kind of bored because they wouldn't move around. The dress code was boring to me. I didn't want to see the guy next door when I'm watching a performer. I wanted to see someone I would pay a ticket for.
There's the exciting part about comedy - if you catch an act just before they go mainstream, that's the best. After they hit the mainstream, everything gets watered down a little bit.
I'm not on all the time. I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.
I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it's so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens.
Doing comedy for film is always a challenge because you are in the hands of the editor after the fact. I am hoping I can do some more soon, I enjoy doing comedy.
To me, most theatre looks ridiculous. I find it very difficult to do. Personally, if I ever try to do serious stuff, I always end up looking like an asshole, so I might as well try and do comedy, because I'm good at that.
The first rule of comedy should be, you must be very lazy. Whoever works should be immediately removed.