Absurd Quote by Mel Brooks

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

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

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

The number one rule of comedy acting is 'don't try to be funny.' Act as seriously as possible.

— Daniel J. Goor

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

When you're a comedic actor and you're used to just getting laughs, it's kind of scary to go serious, even for a second.

— Megyn Price

If you try to go for a laugh, it's death to the comedy. Personally, that's how I approach comedy. But I'm no expert.

— Rachel Weisz

When you're doing comedy on stage, it's great because you have the audience there and they're like another actor in the scene. You feed…

— Wendell Pierce

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

Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.

— Larry Hagman

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