Actor Quote by Megyn Price

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

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

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

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

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

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

— Peter Ustinov

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

Why do all these people want [comedians] to be serious? The reason they want that is these are people who aren't funny. Anybody funny…

— Jon Lovitz

Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way…

— Christopher Walken

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

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

— Matt Berry

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