Cameron Mathison Quotes

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.

You have a dramatic portion of your television program and you treat it dramatically, and then you have a comedic portion of your program, and you treat it differently. Why do you change who are between the two pieces? You're the same person. Just go.

You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.

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.

I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.

I like to do comedy, but I'll be perfectly honest, I prefer to do drama and more character-driven-based stuff, generally.

I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

I do like comedy and drama.

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

Often, when Jim Carrey plays it straight, all of the vitality is drained from his face; he looks like a root-canal patient trying out a pleasant expression for his oral surgeon.

As I have often said, she has two styles of acting: with or without the beard.

On a television show, precise acting isn't the order of the day.

The characters I play are tough, but I love laughing and humor.

It's so important, people laughing.

I feel really comfortable with going for the reality of the drama, but I'm not much for the comedy of it. You have to make people laugh, or you have to be true to the character in such a way that makes people laugh. It's a whole different thing.

This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.

It's good to make people laugh.

Laughs are always needed.

At 21, my career took a comedic turn when I was cast in a new Broadway play called 'Brooklyn Boy,' by Donald Margulies, which was equal parts funny and sad. I realized that the more seriously I expressed my character's feelings, the funnier the scene became.

In my own country, I play light comedies and funny parts.

You've got something really angsty for me to play? Bring it on. Most of the time, I'm goofing around and doing impressions of people, so that's nice.

I normally play very serious characters.

With comedy, I've always had a pretty good sense of what I like and how to execute it well, but drama has its own rules.

Everybody loves to laugh, so to be with somebody who makes you laugh all the time - what a treat.

Doing funny roles is something I enjoy as I am like that in my personal life.