Actors Quote by Melvin Helitzer

A lot of actors are like, 'Why do I do this? My character wouldn't do this? This doesn't make sense.' And in a comedy,…

— Kathryn Hahn

An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.

— Billy Wilder

A comedian is not a person who opens a funny door - he's the person who opens a door funny.

— Chuck Jones

If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting…

— Steve Coogan

You, the actor, must be aware of when you're being funny, but the character you're playing should always be oblivious to the fact.

— Jon Lovitz

We have a particular philosophy in the casting room that we don't really tell the actors - the actors tell us.

— Craig Zadan

I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.

— Alan King

Sometimes an actor will stumble on the joke, and I'm right on them. Back it up before the audience hears the bad version of…

— James Burrows

When someone's an actor and you're an actor, you meet them and you feel like you know them. We're in the same business, and…

— Harold Ramis

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

— Liev Schreiber

The secret to comedy is not playing the comedy, but actually playing the situation, playing the drama of it.

— Nathan Fillion

The knock at the door tells the character of the visitor!

— T. K. V. Desikachar