Tim Roth Quotes

I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.

I think the kick to doing comedy is just to get in a film with really funny people and let them do their jobs. I find that in most comedies, I'm not the funny one, which works out great.

Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.

It's funny, because I was trained as a dramatic actor at New York's Colonnades Theater Lab in the '70s, along with Jeff Goldblum, Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman. People I worked with there saw a comedian in me. I'm still most at home in comedy.

I totally love to act. I don't care if it's a musical, a comedy. I just like to work and interact with other people.

I'm still really interested in acting, I love film so much. It's definitely something I'm going to explore as well.

It's the comedy that guides me. The acting and all that stuff comes second. It's equally important, but I just try to do that as best as I can.

Man, I had a good time working on 'Grown Ups 2.' First of all, when I read the script, it is hands-down the funniest script I've ever read. It's laugh-out-loud funny.

I've tried to go out of my comfort zone to experiment with comedy onscreen.

All I can do is keep my nose down and shoot the scene, shoot the scene, make it funny, make it funny, make it funny.

I feel passionately that we need more space on TV for sketch shows for character actors to experiment.

I do enjoy doing action quite clearly, but I also really like doing comedy.

I like comedy. I would love to do comedy for a long time.

I think my goal was just to do comedy, honestly. It still is. Whatever form that took or takes, it doesn't matter.

I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.

It's really challenging to play comedy.

Comedy is what I really want to do and propel.

I'm no way one of those comedians who want to do drama. I really do love comedies. I hope to go back to it.

Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

I was a bit of a goofball. I was always silly. I think that lends itself to being an actor.

I haven't really done a lot of comedies. I don't know why, because I really like them.

Class clowns become actors.

I went to a theater arts school, so I'm interested in many different projects, whether it be film, television or even live theater. I'm a performer. That's what I do. That's what I want to do.

I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.