Aim Quote by Christopher Walken

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.

— Patton Oswalt

It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously…

— Stephen Fry

I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But they're also the hardest to convert into comedy at the…

— Mike Birbiglia

I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But theyre also the hardest to convert into comedy at the…

— Mike Birbiglia

I'm just an actor. If it's drama, I add as much humour as the part will stand. And if it's a comedy, add as…

— Michael Pena

I played a lot of serious parts in a lot of TV movies and early miniseries but what happens is that you get sort…

— Barry Bostwick

I don't really find things funny unless they're deeply tragic at the same time. I think if you're funny just for the sake of…

— Lee Hall

I think it's harder to go from comedy to drama than from drama to comedy. Seeing you dramatic all the time, they crave to…

— Evan Peters

The fact is that comedy is actually too serious to be taken seriously. It may be that comedy touches such deep emotions that people…

— Abe Burrows

Comedy is serious - deadly serious. Never, never try to be funny! The actors must be serious. Only the situation must be absurd. Funny…

— Mel Brooks

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

— Peter Ustinov

Actors are a great subject for a comedy. They're inherently funny because, like sportsmen, they take themselves so seriously.

— Matt Berry