Kym Whitley Quotes

'The Mindy Project' is really best when you're loose, and we improvise a lot, and that's what's best.

I'm not a standup, but I play one on TV.

It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom.

I totally love to act. I don't care if it's a musical, a comedy. I just like to work and interact with other people.

What attracted to me about it was the cast. Working on 'New Girl' - I like working with an ensemble.

I remember once they sent me over to read for a show called 'Mork and Mindy.' I heard gales of laughter, then Robin Williams walked out. I had to follow Robin Williams.

On 'Sunny,' the main actors are adults, and we're all friends, and we all have the same sense of humor, so there's a lot of improvising.

Acting is just about the script and the director giving you notes. In improv, it's more about trusting that the group will carry you.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

It's the most amazing cast, a dream cast. We laugh all the time.

I'm a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys - movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.

I don't like improvising on camera, particularly, but very often, a scene will not be working, and you rehearse it once or twice, and you realize something's missing. So I'll play with it until it makes sense.

Well, I love acting, and I love acting quick.

I don't mind doing scripted material. It's actually kind of a relief, because improvising is a little bit like screenwriting on your feet.

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

We actually use a lot of improvisation on 'Transparent.'

It is first and foremost very hard work! But I have a wonderful part and I do have fun. The company, cast and crew of 'Passions' are wonderful to work with.

The character of Johnny Drama was a lot of fun to play.

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

My very first role was with James Earl Jones on 'Gabriel's Fire' on TV. He drove a Chevy Citation, which is the exact same car that I bought from a guy in San Francisco called Sandy Boone. I showed up on set, and James Earl Jones was driving the car I had bought from Sandy for $250.

We have a great time on that show, and we enjoy one another's company on stage and off. And sitcoms don't have bad schedules. We started out working five days a week, but now we're down to three.

Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.

Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.

People know my background and for people who need an improviser, I'm one of the people they think to use if I'm appropriate for the part.

Hugh Wilson made it so real and he took us and it was almost when he was directing it, the way he would do it was funnier than the way we did it. And I just developed a regard for him that was unbelievable.