Jimmy O. Yang Quotes

For me personally, I'm mostly focused on writing and acting right now.

I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.

I like to write, I like to do stand-up, I like to act.

I started out more interested in drama, but comedy just came naturally to me, and it's become what I'm most known for, even though my sensibilities still lean towards the dramatic for the most part.

I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight.

To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.

Drama is easy. Comedy's hard.

I hate to give myself credit for anything, but I will say I really enjoy, as an actor, and especially with comedy stuff, playing with different rhythms and with different ways around a joke. There's always an obvious route, and there's one that maybe is a little bit different.

It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.

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

I've grown as a storyteller, and my comedic timing has gotten better.

I tried softball and soccer. I just didn't take as much of a liking to it as I did sitting in a movie theater and watching people recreate a story, and doing it myself, as well.

I was always very creative. I was always into acting and dancing when I was younger.

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me.

I think that in any role you have, whether TV or film, it's hard to do comedy and drama within one story.

The greatest gift that an actor can have is good scripts because then you're relieved of the responsibility of trying to elevate the material.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

Acting is an art form. If you are not creating something that's unusual and informative and at least has the possibility of being illuminating, then you are not into it as an art form.

You're using such different muscles and you rely on physicality in live action, but in animation, you totally throw that out the window. But somehow, they're both as satisfying.

I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.

Whether you're doing Shakespeare or Disney, good work is good work.

I love performing and pretending - it's very easy for me.

I do idiosyncratic dramedies.