Humphrey Bogart Quotes

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

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

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

I don't mind talking about acting. I don't have anything interesting to say about it, but it's interesting talking about it.

Sometimes fake laughing is hard once you've done a scene 18 times. I don't want to brag, but I have a reputation for being very, very good at that. It's funny finding what's challenging about acting as you go.

As actors we're always trying to use our creative imagination.

I've never worked with an acting coach, no.

As an actor, you learn, every time you work.

I'm fascinated with actors, and I've never quite understood the process.

I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent.

I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the funny part!

If I have an audition, I go to the audition in character. I'm in character when I walk in the room. I mean, I'm still sweet to everyone, but I'm very much the character.

I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.

The first thing you have to get used to in any kind of acting is the ability to make a fool of yourself. If you haven't learnt how to make a fool of yourself, you shouldn't be on the boards. That's absolutely what it's all about.

About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.

There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.

I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.

I consider myself an actor that tries to have as many tools as possible in the bag. And I think that includes the method, then of course it includes some improv techniques, and includes all kinds of different things, because you never know when you're going to have to work on something and in what way.

I like to play the comic relief or parts that aren't necessarily comedic but that I can find the comedy in.

I never did stand-up. If I've been funny ever, it was with other actors.

I learned so much from Jane Lynch. She was the funniest and most talented person. She taught me so much about being a performer.

I don't consider myself a comedian, but you work with some comedians, and sometimes these guys are incredible on their feet - it's just amazing - and that's not what I do. But it's always fun, and I don't really care as long as the character is interesting.

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 of people after class. And so a friend of mine said, 'Why don't you do the comedy thing.' That's how it all worked out.

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

I play a guy who is 40. And I am a very good actor, because I'm 41.