Act Quote by Daniel J. Goor

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

With comedy, you have to do it right. In a drama, there's a lot of different ways to succeed in a moment. But comedy…

— Jack Nicholson

You just can't take yourself too seriously, especially in comedy. You shouldn't try to be funny, but you should try to be as honest…

— Paula Patton

I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny

— Brendan Fraser

Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard.

— Tom Sizemore

I wasn't very good in my serious acting class. Sometimes people took our class so seriously, so I used to, sort of, make fun…

— Jennifer Coolidge

I guess there are no real strict rules [in comedy], but I just learn to apply my philosophy about comedy which is, it's a…

— Christoph Waltz

People tend to feel that if you're a comedian, you can't act.

— David Jason

The fact of the matter is, you can't do comedy unless someone is behaving badly. Otherwise, it's not a comedy.

— Keegan-Michael Key

Regardless of what kind of film, the number one rule of comedy is to never take yourself too seriously and then the next rule…

— Ari Graynor

In comedy, you have to do all of the same stuff you do in drama and then put the comedy on top of it.…

— Jon Lovitz

Some people are brilliant at being comedy actors and if you're a comedian I think there's a perception that, if you're acting at something…

— John Bishop