Actors Quote by Antony Sher

Though the clown is often deadpan, he is a connoisseur of laughter.

— Mel Gussow

I've been called a funny person for a long time. I don't know that I know anything about comedic acting.

— John Cho

Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.

— Flip Wilson

“Giggling is a plague on the nervous system that I believe is hardwired into some people’s physiology and seems to be a reaction to…

— Linda Ronstadt

It's odd because some actors are very scared of comedians.

— Robert Webb

Only comedians can talk about death, life, God and Virgin Mary. If I was a tragic actor, I couldn't allow myself. But with this…

— Roberto Benigni

I think a lot of people think that we [comedians] are nerveless people in the theatre, that we don't feel that kind of terror…

— Barry Humphries

I'll regularly just burst out into laughter at funerals, at the expense of the dead. What's the difference between a dead person and Thom…

— Thom Yorke

Without discipline and detachment, an actor is an emotional slob, spilling his insides out. This abandonment is having an unfortunate vogue. It is tasteless,…

— Bette Davis

A hero has to become a comedian to do a comic role but a comedian does not have to do anything. People laugh at…

— Johnny Lever

Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in…

— Max Beerbohm

The character and the actor in a long-running series slowly become one. I think there must be funny stories about actors who, in the…

— William H. Macy