Hugh Skinner Quotes

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

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

When you saw Jon Lovitz or Dana Carvey or Phil Hartman doing something, they were acting. It was real acting. Like, they were acting like that person. They weren't like - it wasn't even like they were really trying to go for a laugh, especially in Phil Hartman's case.

I did theatrical caricatures.

I love doing impressions.

Uzo Aduba over at 'Godspell' is doing an even more entertaining Donald Trump than Donald Trump's Donald Trump.

Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.

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.

I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.

I love doing impressions and I love doing accents.

Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare.

I love doing comedy, and I don't get a chance to much. I get to play lots of serious people, and killers, and people with a lot of... sheriffs. Good people and bad people, but lots of drama, and to get a chance to be genuinely silly is a great treat for me.

My ultimate is Peter Sellers - his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at the same time. He was just relatable, real at the same time as insane. I find Ricky Gervais absolutely hilarious. Steve Martin is another hero of mine - he's a genius.

I just love to impersonate people, and I impersonate people because I find them fascinating.

I think impersonation is a great art. It's something that I enjoy doing, in a frivolous and lighthearted way. But I don't flatter myself to think I'm an impersonator.

I love doing impersonations of people.

Bill Hader does a really good impression of me.

I'd love to do a really broad comedy at some point.

I really just love making comedies; I love doing characters.

When I played Imunique on 'Love That Girl,' that was on the other side of comedy - loud and out there.

When I present those clip shows and movie mistakes and things, the persona the writers adopt for me is unimpressed, superior, very sarcastic - I'm not any of that. I can do it, but that's not what I'm like.

I'm usually cast by people who are oddly goofy.

I didn't create Bugs Bunny. You know what I mean? I can't get mad because I'm the third-best Bugs Bunny in the world.

Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.

I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.