Rob Riggle Quotes

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

Improv is mostly what I've studied.

I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.

I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.

My drama instructor suggested I try comedy. I was resistant at first because I considered myself a serious actor, but of course I fell in love with it.

It's funny, because I was trained as a dramatic actor at New York's Colonnades Theater Lab in the '70s, along with Jeff Goldblum, Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman. People I worked with there saw a comedian in me. I'm still most at home in comedy.

I did a lot of theater when I was in high school and college. I also did stand-up in college, so it was always part of what I did.

I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.

I am obsessed with improv.

I don't want to do procedural: I want to do longform.

In high school, we would do improv. Me and my boy were, like, the stars of the class.

I come from standup and improv.

I've always been an actor, even when I was doing improv and my own version of stand up.

Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.

I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all.

I got into theater at an early age.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.

I played comedies and dramas.

I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the funny part!

I have done a lot of theater.

Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it.

I'm really eager to go back and do some theater. I would love to do some more comedy as well because I think that's really the hardest thing to do; it's what I grew up doing, and I would love to go back and do that. I did a lot of theater growing up - musical theater.

I started out doing musicals.

Improv kind of goes hand in hand with what I do. I was on 'Reno 911!' for six years, and that was a completely improvised show.

I love the theater. I love being on stage; I love the live audience. I also love dressing up and all of the make-believe.