Able Quote by Ian Mckellen

I'm just an entertainer. All I want to be is funny. I never aspired to play Hamlet.

— Danny Kaye

I'm probably more of a stand-up comedian than an actor.

— Kevin Nealon

I always get a little bit pissed off when stand-up comedy is not recognised as being as good a craft as being an actor.…

— Jim Jefferies

Even in the tragedies, [William] Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people who…

— Margaret Atwood

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…

— Eugene Levy

During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet…

— Randeep Hooda

If you decide to do Hamlet in a funny hat staged in a ruined factory, it doesn't make you Shakespeare.

— William Monahan

I'm not a Shakespearean actor really, or a Shakespearean director.

— Sam Wanamaker

Sometimes you can do Shakespeare and you're still not an actor.

— Clark Gregg

Even in the tragedies, Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people who talk…

— Margaret Atwood

I don't come from a comedy background or a stand-up background, but I think that sometimes there's a misconception that an actor who works…

— Darren Boyd

At the end of the day, stand-up comedy is like acting when the audience are the other characters that I'm acting with.

— Brett Gelman