John Michael Higgins Quotes

In school, I was playing old men and women, babies, Russian people, and all sorts of weird parts - a lot of comedy - and that's sort of like home to me.

Well, I play Jews and parrots. Parrots are how I've branched out.

Even in college I tended to get cast in the comedies more. It was what I liked doing.

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.

I wanted to be a dramatic actor. I never realized I was funny until I was 20-something.

I never thought I would sing or dance - ever, ever, ever. My idea was to be Laurence Olivier or Peter Lorre or some great classical actor. I thought I'd be a character actor.

I was always goofing around. I suppose having a father who was an actor made you think that it was a real possibility as a career.

I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.

I did one of the 'Amazing Stories.' That was the first time I got to play a character who was a dumb blonde. I actually channeled Judy Holliday.

I hadn't done comedy before 'Fresh Meat' - I hadn't really been seen that way, and then 'Fresh Meat' came out, and suddenly a lot more comedy scripts were coming my way, which was really great.

I don't want to be typecast as a heroine who does a certain kind of cinema, which is why I experiment with the types of films that I do. But yes, I won't deny that romantic love stories or romantic comedies are what I enjoy doing the most, because as an audience those are the kind of films that I like watching.

Until Genevieve I had tended towards the more dramatic type of role.

I went to drama school and, after that, went to Paris to train at a place called Ecole Philippe Gaulier. When I came home, I realised I'd have to have a serious stab at it. I didn't have an agent and didn't have the traditional drama school showcase, so I started a comedy group with a couple of friends.

I was a bit of a goofball. I was always silly. I think that lends itself to being an actor.

Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.

I did a lot of serious plays, and I did the Oxford Review as well, which is supposed to be funny, but I'm not sure how funny we were when we did it. Then, when I finished my course, it was only then that I decided to go to drama school and try and do acting because I was enjoying it so much and so on.

I haven't really done a lot of comedies. I don't know why, because I really like them.

When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.

I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.

I really fancied myself a comedic actress.

I started getting on my feet and clowning around, and they ended up putting me in a play when I was 12. And I was hooked.

I would like to work in both comedy and drama.

No one ever said movies are for developing your range. Hardly anyone gets that opportunity. Which is why I think the stage is so good. It's less bread, but you can play different types, and you can initiate your own projects.

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

I moved to New York to do theater, and I got cast in a play that was funny, and then I was the funny guy. I did a movie that was funny, and then I was the funny guy.