Ray Winstone Quotes

I'd love to do comedy. And I think I have pretty good sense of comic timing, so I'd really like to try that.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

I get just as much of a thrill out of constructing a good sentence that gets a laugh at the end as I do from a joke.

A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.

I'm good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue.

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.

Even with college, the reason I wanted to go so badly is because I wanted to major in film. I want to take screenwriting classes and learn more about behind the scenes stuff, because I love people like Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig who are able to write a lot of their own material and be so involved in everything they do.

Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.

I would say 80% of the scripts I get are dramas and not comedies or romantic comedies, which is funny because that's what I do every week.

I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.

Comedy is what I really want to do and propel.

I'm a reasonably good actor, and I'm an average naval officer. Ha, ha!

Still, on 'Friends', we had some guest-stars who were less than spectacular, not the stunt-casting, but just regular guest-stars, and they weren't particularly great actors, but the material was so good that they scored. It's the writing.

Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

I've never really told jokes. I'm not good at it.

I like to make people laugh. That's for sure. And I really like to humiliate myself and go very far in derision and stuff. But no, I like everything. I started a little bit of doing drama, too. I like that, too. I guess I just want to touch everything.

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.

The difference between you and the funny person on TV is that they acted on their ideas.

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'm not much of a joke writer.

It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.

If I'm not clear with the character, I can't do anything with it. But once I get that character, the possibilities are endless. When you have such a defined character, I feel like I can actually read the phone book and make it funny.

A lot of people who do drama say comedy is the hardest thing, but, not wanting to sound like a bighead, comedy is easy for me, as I've always been fairly funny.