Lara Pulver Quotes

Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people laugh and make them happy.

I'd love to do a comedy. I'm terrified of comedy. I don't think I'm funny, but I guess that's why it's so thrilling.

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

I am not an insecure person. For me, insecurity comes when something I do does not come across the way I thought it would. It would come if I had nothing more to say as an actor. I have a long way to go!

You want everyone to be great and funny. I'm not saying I'm great, but I'm funny.

The more I become comfortable in my own skin, I think the funnier I become.

I consider myself an actor who is funny.

I like to play the guy that has no self-awareness.

Filming 'Glow' helped with my confidence.

I don't think people think I'm funny, but in my head, I'm like, 'I am!'

It's only when I faced the camera that I realised how confident I was on screen!

At 14, I was modeling, which helped me come out of my shell, but I always dreamed of theater school.

I'd been involved with stand-up before improv, so I already thought highly of myself as being a funny person. I never thought I wasn't funny.

I'm not really as cool and collected as 'Mrs. Funnybones', but she is the woman I want to be.

I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get. I think I'm a stronger comedic actress than I am a dramatic actress. I'm not really pigeonholed, but I'm known for drama. I do comedy so easily, and people relate to my humor. I'll be glad because I don't have to stay sexy and young forever. I don't care if I'm big, as long as I'm funny.

I am not confident unless I am playing someone else.

I felt more comfortable playing other people than being myself, when I was a kid. And then, the tables turned. Through my performances, I've become more comfortable with who I am, and then I just bring more of myself into the people that I play.

I always loved comedy but I didn't start formally until I was in college.

I never thought I was funny, but I enjoy being funny.

I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.

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

I started doing improv when I was 8 years old, so it's always been in my life. I would feel naked without it.

You can't be vain as an actor. In 'Ab Fab,' we were made up as old women with bald wigs and jowly necks, and we looked fantastic.

Instead of focusing on my looks I focus on the character that I am playing.

It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.