Jason Gann Quotes

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

I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.

I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.

I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.

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

Someday I'd love to do Shakespeare.

Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.

I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company.

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.

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

But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

I've played Lear three times, I would love to do it again.

I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.

Perhaps because my background is theatrical, I have a great affinity with the classics. Hamlet has always been a character of great interest to me and a character I would really love to play. Or a character in a Tennessee Williams play, maybe Tom in 'The Glass Menagerie.'

I don't know, I'd love to try some theater. That's my other thing. I'd love to do some Shakespeare.

I'm a big lover of Shakespeare. In fact, the only plays that I've ever done professionally in New York have been Shakespearian.

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

Divine was like a 400-pound beached whale. He was one of my favorite leading ladies, I've got to tell you. He was really terrific.

I can relate to anything. I once played Macbeth. I got a lot of laughs, so I quit.

I would love to do Shakespeare, either onstage or on film.

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

I wanted to do what I was seeing Dorothy Dandridge doing, what I saw Marilyn Monroe do, what I saw Bette Davis do. I wanted to do that: to tell stories. I wanted to make people laugh, make people cry. I wanted to be a storyteller.

When I was younger, I acted in some Shakespeare stuff; I did one Shakespeare camp.

I think, as an actress, it is amazing to shock your audiences.