Stephnie Weir Quotes

Joan Cusack is one of my favorite comedic actresses, and every part she plays is so different. She does the wackiest stuff and somehow it works. I like watching her a lot, and I think you can always go further and pull back. That's something I really have to work on.

I have a lot of funny friends, and we joke a lot, but I've never really played comedic parts.

I love doing comedy, and I don't get a chance to much. I get to play lots of serious people, and killers, and people with a lot of... sheriffs. Good people and bad people, but lots of drama, and to get a chance to be genuinely silly is a great treat for me.

There are some actresses that can't do comedy; it's too heavy-handed.

I would like to explore comedy more. It's not something that I've done a lot of. Obviously, I'm very at home in drama. I like everything.

Chris Farley, I was a huge fan of his growing up. I would love to do something kind of slapstick and funny, maybe where I could change my look even a little bit.

I like dramatic stuff, and I have a goofball side, too. I like to do comedy and off-beat things as much as something really, really serious.

I really just love making comedies; I love doing characters.

Drama comes more naturally to me. It's the comedy you really have to delve into.

To play the leading man in a 'Three Stooges' movie, you've got to think funny. Thank God I think funny.

I've been called a funny person for a long time. I don't know that I know anything about comedic acting.

People like Bill Murray are incredible at what they do and are definitely my flavour. Although Will Ferrell, Sacha Baron Cohen and Ricky Gervais are also incredible actors. In their comedy, they make these stupid people feel so real. These guys are really setting the bar very high, and I learn as much from them about acting as I do about comedy.

Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.

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

Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard.

In comedy, my strengths are improvisation.

My dad turned me onto Peter Sellers as a kid. I loved the fact that he was a unique combination of being extremely subtle and over-the-top all at the same time, and that's a hard thing to do. I admire that.

I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.

It's really challenging to play comedy.

The one that was most fun was That's My Bush; the part that I did for Comedy Central. That was a hoot. That was more fun that one should be allowed to have.

I'm an actor. I'll take a lead if it's offered. The really good actors can fill a character, no matter what the role is. A good leading man is a character actor; a good character actor can be a leading man.

I've never been an impressionist. I was doing Sofia Vergara and Elizabeth Dole. I'm sometimes so low-confidence and self-aware, so characters that are confident and ignorant and wrong are my favorite.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama, and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.

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