Phyllis Smith Quotes

I absolutely love doing comedy, however, of course as an actor, I would love the opportunity to do more dramatic roles.

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.

People think comedians don't do drama. Comics are drama. And what is drama, as opposed to comedy? It's all the same to me.

All the plays I do are comedies. I love listening to people laugh. I couldn't do the dramas like 'All My Sons.'

Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.

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

I always found that drama, really good drama, has a lot of comedy in it.

I just like comedy in general. My film work, which has been at times more dramatic, has been satisfying. But I never feel quite as good and as light and blissful as when I'm doing comedy.

I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare.

I think drama and comedy are pretty much all the same, and the issue is whether or not you have a sense of humor.

I think comedy's harder to pull off on the screen than on the stage, anyway. Tragedy is easier on the screen... oddly enough.

I am more comfortable doing a drama.

I like drama as well. When I played Hamlet, I got one review that said, "This must surely be the funniest Hamlet in history," but schoolgirls would still cry when he died.

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

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

Outside of 'Justified,' I do like to keep it to comedy. When I'm not there, I try to seek out stuff that sort of more along the lighter fare. I have more fun on those sets than I do on drama sets just because when it's heavy, it's heavy, and it's hard to get away from it.

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

I like doing comedy, I like doing drama. Naturally I like to do, I like doing dramas, I like conflict, and when I do a comedy, you know, I've found that, like, romantic comedy is the trickiest one, because often it's neither: it's not romantic and it's not funny. So, like, I like a comedy that's biting. It's biting humor or really quirky 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, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all.

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

It's a tremendous feeling walking on to a set with a live audience and making them laugh, but I love drama, and I love drama where there's the ability to bring comedy into it because in a lot of tragic circumstances in life there is comedy to be had.

I do more comedy, actually. I don't do the classic novelas.

I'd love to do a really juicy drama that's just really real. On the comedy side, I'd love to do something like '21 Jump Street.' I cannot stop watching that movie. Really funny, really extreme comedies are definitely my favorite.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.