Comedic Actors Quotes

#1. I've been called a funny person, for a long time. I don't know that I know anything about comedic acting. I'm not a good improver, which is what a lot of comedic actors are really good at. I have failed miserably when I've been asked to improvise.

John Cho

#2. Things that make me laugh range from a wonderful stand-up like Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K. and Chris Rock to my son Gabe, who does great improv work. I also look backwards to the great comedic actors like Jackie Gleason, Paul Lynde and Phil Silvers.

Jason Alexander

#3. As a comic, it's anti-comedy to be known. I think a lot of comedic actors get lost in this world of Hollywood and all this stuff. They lose what brought them there in the first place. I'm very trepidatious about it.

Zach Galifianakis

#4. As an artist I just think comedic actors are really underrated.

Rose Byrne

#5. I think the best comedic actors don't play it for comedy, they play it for reality. Then you find it funny because it's real. Playing the genre is the worst thing you can do - it's embarrassing.

Zooey Deschanel

#6. I'm a comedic actor, not to mix words, but it's something I think about. A comedic actor. I like to think that Christopher Guest, Phil Hartman, Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness are comedic actors. And Dan Aykroyd, too. Those are my heroes.

Mike Myers

#7. Molly Shannon and I used to always talk about that we really felt strongly that we were comedic actors, that we weren't comedians. You just played things real and the comedy came out of the context.

Will Ferrell

#8. I think people when they think of comedic actors they forget that they are people with a point of view and experiences and depth.

Channing Tatum

#9. This particular film highlights Ben and Owen's strengths which is that they are great comedic actors with tremendous chemistry and they do a really good job.

Paul Michael Glaser

#10. There are a lot of comedic actors who are just out to be the funny one and get all the laughs and they'll sacrifice your joke, the scene, the story just to be the star. All they want is attention and to be number one. You can spot those guys from a mile away and they're the worst.

Jake M. Johnson

#11. Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.

Malin Akerman

#12. The great amount of fun that I have is I can cast dramatic actors to play comedic roles, and I can cast comedic actors to play dramatic roles because, really, there's no such thing. There's just actors.

Noah Hawley

#13. Comedic actors can be looked at as a lower form because we have to put ourselves in a lower place than most of the audience. I think lofty emotions are somehow considered more special. The best stories in the world to me are the ones that elicit a real emotion, but have humour.

Jim Carrey

#14. I don't think I can be intimidated about working with any comedic actors. It felt great to get to play hardball with the big boys as they say.

Erick Chavarria

#15. I've never done anything comedic. In all the years I've been an actor, I've never delivered one comedic line.

James D'arcy

#16. When it comes to African Americans and African American actors, Hollywood has always felt that if you can make us laugh, that's fine, but we don't need to see you do a 'Schindler's List,' where there's no jokes or music or comedic through-line.

Hill Harper

#17. I don't think I'm predominantly thought of as being a comedic actor.

Michael Madsen

#18. Bill, The United States is not a company. It is a country.

Stewart Alsop

#19. It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.

P. Chidambaram

#20. The Christian truth is attractive and persuasive because it responds to humanity's deepest needs.

Pope Francis

#21. Jesus alone cleanses from sin; He only can forgive our transgressions.

Ellen G. White

#22. The full ethereal round, Infinite worlds disclosing to the view, Shines out intensely keen; and all one cope Of starry glitter glows from pole to pole. THE

Henry David Thoreau

#23. There is no thermometer for wants!

Phyllis Bottome

#24. Amy doesn't love you."
George says it gently--like she's sympathetically sticking a piece of glass straight through my left eye.

Cath Crowley

#25. When someone who is known as a comedic actor goes to drama, it often doesn't work out, because they really just chose wrong, I think - or maybe they're just not good actors, I don't know.

Jonah Hill

#26. And now I fell as bodies fall,for dead.

Dante Alighieri

#27. I'm not a comedian. I don't do stand-up. I don't tell jokes. I'm a comedic actor, and approach my work that way. The comedy comes through the character.

Eugene Levy

#28. I would love to work with Bill Murray. I've always been such a big fan. I think he's obviously a great comedic actor but a really interesting actor.

Will Ferrell

#29. My heroes are Bill Murray and Dustin Hoffman. Those are the two actors that both do comedies and dramas, seamlessly. Also John C. Reilly and Philip Seymour Hoffman. They're all just great actors, neither comedic nor dramatic. They're just great actors.

Jonah Hill

#30. If you want to be deeply respected, deeply respect as many people as possible.

Robin Sharma

#31. It's not what we say is a priority, but what we actually DO that's a priority.

J.D. Roth

#32. I'm labeled a comedic actor, which is awesome. But I love getting the occasional dramatic role, too. Some of your best dramatic actors are ultimately comedians.

Jim O'Heir

#33. Do not allow your body to confuse your heart,

Christin Lovell

#34. Everyone thinks I'm a comedian - which I am and are. I was born into a comedic family but I'm trained as an actor.

Marlon Wayans

#35. Don't look to anyone for your needs,
for the One who created you,
waters you.

Rumi

#36. When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it's always "a big breakthrough" or a "radical departure." Why is is no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy? Are they presuming comedy is easier?

Carol Burnett

#37. I enjoy comedic things. People don't understand it's the hardest thing to do. We have a ratio of 25-to-1 between good dramatic actors and people who are considered good comic actors.

Charles Grodin

#38. That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise the person who has neither the ability nor the good will for revenge whether it be a man or a woman.

Friedrich Nietzsche