Jack Lowden Quotes

It doesn't interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones and Jack Ryan. I don't want to be in the Harrison Ford business. I take what I do seriously, but I don't take myself seriously.

Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.

I think that there's a fine line between comedy and drama.

I often do very serious roles, but really I am a big clown.

I like dramas. I've always liked dramas. And I'm a pretty light person. I don't consider myself a very dramatic person. But I do like doing that onscreen.

I started acting when I was 13, so acting has been, with great fortune, my job since I could get a job.

I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak.

I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

There's a fine line between comedy and the darkest place ever.

I do a lot of serious stuff, but I'm not a very serious guy.

I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare. A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory.

Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.

Hamlet, that's the only role there is, finally. The only role. After that, you settle down and only do the fun things on stage.

I think it's natural if you're doing a lot of comedy to do a lot of drama, because you have to figure out the real version of the joke.

I'm a real paradox. Because I'm a very serious person, and I take my work very seriously. But I wrap it up in a court jester and a clown and make people laugh and make them feel good about themselves.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

I think those that are holier-than-thou don't make jokes. They take themselves too seriously and Peeta doesn't take himself too seriously. This is what I believe in and I'm comfortable with that and I can make a joke here and there.

I have been very lucky for most of my adult life to be working as an actor.

Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.

You don't have to take yourself so seriously all the time.

I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.

For a comedienne, you have to have a little tragedy or a dark side, just not too much. Otherwise it's too disruptive.

It's fun to do a comedy and hook people in and then hoodwink them into watching a serious movie. I like to lead in with the comedy and then hit them over the head with a drama.