Kurt Fuller Quotes

Ah, nuts. I'm an actor. I just do what comes naturally.

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

I think you have to have a sense of humor about every movie that you're doing. Your character needs to be relatable in a way that, even when you're doing the most bizarre things, sometimes a bit of tongue in cheek is necessary to keep up the believability of it.

I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.

I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent.

Well, actually, the Second City thing came about because I was taking a few improv classes there. I thought that the improv classes would help with my wrestling career, which it has.

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.

I look at old performance videos now, and it's really funny - I thought I was such a gangster!

I don't mind talking about acting. I don't have anything interesting to say about it, but it's interesting talking about it.

I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.

In 'Malvolio,' the audience laugh at me, and I use that laughter to crack open the question as to why they are laughing.

About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.

I'm not an impersonator. I'm a lousy impersonator, actually.

I think if actors don't think of themselves as funny in real life they think they can't do comedy.

I kind of did this thing in high school, a spoof of 'Sweeney Todd' called 'Shirley Todd,' and I had a great time doing that.

I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?

I had this website that, at one point, I listed myself as 'actor, writer, comedian, and fart enthusiast' just because I thought that would be a really clear joke.

I wasn't very good in my serious acting class. Sometimes people took our class so seriously, so I used to, sort of, make fun of people after class. And so a friend of mine said, 'Why don't you do the comedy thing.' That's how it all worked out.

A lot of people think that comedy is sort of a cop out to not wrestling seriously, but I actually would argue that comedy is much more difficult than wrestling seriously because you have to be creative in almost everything that you do if you want the comedy to make sense within the realms of pro wrestling.

Actors are a great subject for a comedy. They're inherently funny because, like sportsmen, they take themselves so seriously.

The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.

The whole time that I was doing the voice of Korra, I would always joke around saying that nobody's gonna give me a job as an action star or a hero. I just do silly comedy.

I play a guy who is 40. And I am a very good actor, because I'm 41.