James Adomian Quotes

You have to play your characters, not like them.

It's much easier for me to be silly than it is to be serious on soap opera.

A good part's a good part. You can play serious and funny moments with a well-written role.

Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.

I would like to work in both comedy and drama.

Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no time.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way to play 'Veep' would be to make Louis-Dreyfus a folksy heroine, one with more common sense or populist heart than her enemies. But she isn't one.

I want to do drama, light comedy, the whole range.

I loved playing Chandler. I grew up playing that part.

I love playing different characters and I love doing fun things and I love to entertain people, whether that be in a comedy or a drama. If I get you to laugh or I get you to cry I'm super stoked, as morbid as that might sound.

It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.

I find that comedy is my specialty, but drama is slowly starting to move up in that rank. I've always liked playing a character that has depth and that I'm able to bring my own niche to.

After we'd filmed one series of 'Kiss Me Kate,' everyone was saying: 'The guy's got great comic timing,' - that was the first I'd heard of it. I'm not a comedian, I don't want to depend on a singular box of tricks. I like story and characters, to take on world views that are not my own.

My role 14 years ago in Richard III - that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it - they have all the fun!

Maybe you're better to play a villain just straight out.

I don't know what it is that I do, but when I play a really bad guy, I'm able to bring some level of likability to it.

I get a lot of people saying to me, 'Oh, you're the actor who plays the nutters,' and I'm not. I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.

I really like to play these complicated characters, and I really like to transform.

I'm doing 'Alvin and the Chipmunks.' I get to play the bad guy. That's a nice change of pace.

Every character I've played is goofy, but it has to have some type of reality.

When you're playing a character, I think it's always better not to judge that character.

I love attempting to play real people. I like to try and have dramatic moments as well as comedic moments, and my favorite thing is when those two lines are blurred.

I would love to play Mary in 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' or 'Virginia Woolf' or a comedy - just, like, a slapstick comedy.

It's always fun playing a villain, I do have to say.

A lot of the work I've done has involved playing quite sympathetic characters.