Judy Greer Quotes

I approach a comedy the same way I do a drama. I try to make it as real as possible.

I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.

When I'm doing a drama, I like to find the comedy; when I'm doing a comedy, I like to find the heart and 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.

A good part's a good part. You can play serious and funny moments with a well-written role.

Growing up, I loved drama and fantasies. I hated the Marx Brothers. I took all that confusion seriously.

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

To be honest, I am somebody that, as long as I have a character, it doesn't really matter if it's comedy or drama - I think timing is important in either. But for me, it's all about having a character to work on.

You have to avoid caricature, at the one end of the spectrum, and sentimentality, at the other; which is not to say that such characters shouldn't be funny part of the time, or that their actions shouldn't evoke genuine feeling.

'Ugly Betty' has been the most important thing I've ever done, easily. I was able to do more with one character than I can ever imagine doing again - Hilda was hilariously funny and emotionally deep... I really got to showcase what I could do with a character.

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

I love comedy, but I actually do prefer drama because I am already animated as a human being.

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

I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.

There's a certain rhythm to comedy that is almost like you're dancing and you just go on autopilot, so to speak. There's something just beautifully enjoyable about comedy in that respect. It's a joy to be able to do that. Drama, you get to go to depths that you haven't gone to before.

It's wonderful to play a villain who gets a laugh or to stop a comedy dead in its tracks with a touching moment. It's kind of like a symphony that has very different movements.

Every character I've played is goofy, but it has to have some type of reality.

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.

When I first started getting into acting, I was doing improv in acting class, and I had done a serious monologue and everyone was cracking up laughing and I went to the drama teacher and said I don't want to be the class clown anymore, I want to do serious work, too, and they loved that, and so I started mixing in drama.

Comedy's easy for me now - it's all about timing and the way you deliver lines. I use facial expressions to get the point across.

It's much easier for me to be silly than it is to be serious on soap opera.

As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode. If it's good writing you just have to play it true - if it's funny, it's funny. But obviously you don't want it to be amusing if you're playing Hedda Gabler!

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

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

I like doing comedy, I like doing drama. Naturally I like to do, I like doing dramas, I like conflict, and when I do a comedy, you know, I've found that, like, romantic comedy is the trickiest one, because often it's neither: it's not romantic and it's not funny. So, like, I like a comedy that's biting. It's biting humor or really quirky humor.