Frustrating Quote by Patrick Wilson

When a dramatic actor does a funny film, people are like, 'Wonderful! I didn't know he was funny!' But when it flips, people can…

— Will Ferrell

I'm sure all actors have trouble. The guy who always plays the funny guy, he wants to be taken seriously. And there's the action…

— Jason Momoa

Sometimes it's very difficult to do a movie that's good and then have that movie make it to the light of day.

— Holly Hunter

Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of…

— Elizabeth Olsen

People who do not have funny in them are not funny when they read funny lines. Sorry. Just doesn't work that way. Seriously, this…

— David Dobkin

Actors are a funny lot. Sometimes they're not satisfied with where they are. I include myself.

— Tony Todd

I love it when actors come to you with a problem and you have to listen. You'd like them to just get on with…

— Jane Campion

There are endless anxieties in putting a film together, and it's an enormous relief when you know it's working with an audience.

— Errol Morris

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

Actors want to surprise themselves. When it's really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely.

— Claire Danes

I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in their head.

— Noah Baumbach

Too many actors try to get too much out of scenes that they ought to be leaving alone, just doing them quickly and getting…

— Howard Hawks