Acting Quote by Michael Clarke Duncan

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

I've always had a bawdy sense of humor. My father was a traveling salesman and he would bring jokes home. He would say, "Honey,…

— Betty White

I wasn't very good in my serious acting class. Sometimes people took our class so seriously, so I used to, sort of, make fun…

— Jennifer Coolidge

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

Laughter is binary: It either happens or it doesn't. As each joke arrives in the course of a film, the cavernous space of the…

— David Dobkin

I think that a sense of humor of an actor comes through most of the time. Maybe some actors have less than others, and…

— Isabelle Huppert

I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare.

— Steve Coogan

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

Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard.

— Tom Sizemore

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

Shakespeare - it's not funny. No matter how they try to make Shakespeare funny, when it's meant to be funny it's not funny.

— Julie Walters

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