Paulo Costanzo Quotes

I do idiosyncratic dramedies.

I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.

Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.

I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.

If I'm not clear with the character, I can't do anything with it. But once I get that character, the possibilities are endless. When you have such a defined character, I feel like I can actually read the phone book and make it funny.

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

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

I went to drama school. I'm classically trained; I studied Shakespeare, blah blah blah. But I always preferred to do Oscar Wilde, or Shakespeare's comedies over his dramas.

After we'd filmed one series of 'Kiss Me Kate,' everyone was saying: 'The guy's got great comic timing,' - that was the first I'd heard of it. I'm not a comedian, I don't want to depend on a singular box of tricks. I like story and characters, to take on world views that are not my own.

To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.

Drama is what I'm really obsessed by. It's what gets me up in the morning, what I live for. But I'll always have a love for comedy because it was my first opportunity, and I associate it with my best friends, who I made during 'School of Comedy'.

I love doing drama as much as I love doing comedy.

Drama is easy. Comedy's hard.

I love comedy, and I always wanted to go that way, but I felt so passionate about drama.

Being on 'The Office' prepared me for drama. Comedy got me ready, but once you get down to it, they're two sides of the same thing. I mean, the delivery has to be different - in drama, there's more time to breathe, and comedy's all about hitting the joke.

I hate to give myself credit for anything, but I will say I really enjoy, as an actor, and especially with comedy stuff, playing with different rhythms and with different ways around a joke. There's always an obvious route, and there's one that maybe is a little bit different.

After my first play, I realised that comedy was my forte - rather than being a dukhi heroine, I would rather do comedy.

Comedy and drama are like two different sports; they both require athleticism but they're different.

When I do theatre in New York, I typically only get cast in comedy.

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 always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

When I was at Upright Citizens Brigade, I would pretend to be a sad, drunk rapper.

I've never ever read a script. I really must read Macbeth, because I was in it once. I got a lot of laughs in that, I can tell you.

I've been working straight since 2003, so I might just want to take an improv or theater class. That excites me. I can't wait to do different characters - not necessarily the leading chick who gets the guy, but the weird, freaky cousin.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.