Darren Boyd Quotes

Acting-wise, I haven't done a lot of comedy, so I would love to work with Jane Lynch. I think she's hilarious.

I don't have a vast longing for the stage.

I'm an actor, I'm not a comedian, I never was a comedian.

I don't like going for more than a year without doing theatre. I don't mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel I'm open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening.

It doesn't come easily to me, comedy. It's definitely not my strong suit. I'm probably more suited for drama and dramatic roles, but I certainly would love to be in quirky and fun movies.

At this point, I feel fairly comfortable in terms of performance. I think having a sketch background actually helps a lot. Because my background is acting, and stand-up, in a lot of ways, is acting.

I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl.

I've done a lot of drama in my career, but I'm actually more comfortable doing comedy.

I like to think I've done a lot of different kinds of roles, but obviously I have done quite a lot of comedies.

If I could live a parallel life, I would be a sitcom star; being in front of a live audience would be great.

I'm never going to be an improv comedian.

I don't really do stand-up.

I started in Shakespeare. I'm classically trained, which, how hilarious is that? Then one night, I saw Second City and thought, 'Wow, that's what I want to do.' But I never thought it would morph into screenplay writing.

There's an audience that is paid to laugh at my jokes. I'm playing a character while I'm doing stand-up. Real stand-ups, man, they're playing themselves. I'd be far too terrified.

I began working on stage in Atlanta when I was 3, doing a dance act with the Ragamuffins of Rhythm. Later I became a juvenile straight man for the older comedians. After that I worked out a stand-up act.

Plays are definitely the most difficult of them all. They are entirely a different category altogether. I don't have the courage to try out plays.

It's always hard to watch bad actors improv on your skit.

You start out as an artist in some way or other. And my background is all theater, and I goofed into doing TV comedy.

I love the idea of doing comedy, whether it's action comedy or just straight comedy. It's such a big, new world for me that I'm starting to realize that any character that I relate to, in any way, shape or form, or that I have any appreciation for, given enough preparation, I can find that person.

I can't say I'm confident in my abilities as an actor.

You'll get, like, 10 pages of sides the night before, and you have to go in and just wing it. For someone like me, I came from the theater, and I don't like putting anything up in front of anybody until it's really, really ready, so it can be very frustrating.

I've always been an actor, even when I was doing improv and my own version of stand up.

Theatre is for you if you truly want to act and test yourself. There is no room for error as you are performing in front of a live audience.

I used to do comedy during my theatre days, and I was good at that.

I got the performing itch.