Life Quote by Jesse Armstrong

As an actor, you can really play the intensity and gravity and seriousness of the moment, and just rely on the circumstances being funny.…

— Ed Helms

People have expectations from you - and the whole fun of acting is taking expectations and completely upending them. That's how you get laughs…

— John Lithgow

You can't substitute the act of making people laugh. It's definitely something that actors like to do.

— Thomas Gibson

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…

— Jake M. Johnson

You can crack a joke and make a person smile but it matters a lot when that's on screen. It can be a very…

— Jitendra Kumar

There's obviously some appeal in scenes for me - there's something I respond to. I keep doing those films where I put myself out…

— Jason Biggs

You're basically on set to help the production. You're helping the actors make it make sense, or maybe you wrote something that doesn't work…

— Katie Dippold

Different scenes call for different acting styles. The kinds of scenes I like most are the ones where you just bury yourself in there.…

— Will Forte

Good acting is thinking in front of the camera. I just do that and apply a sense of humor to it. You have to…

— Charles Grodin

That takes a lot of confidence to let your actors come up with something that could be theoretically funnier than what you had envisioned…

— Jackie Schaffer

You don't see a wonderful shot in a comedy. Why? Because they don't want to distract you from what matters, which is the joke.…

— Fede Alvarez

Often when you're filming comedy and you've done six or seven takes, the joke's been done and you know you're gonna have to say…

— Jim Howick