Kathryn Hahn Quotes

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

As an actor, my background is in the theater and I feel that my strong suit is period work, but I actually didn't do much of it at all, until the last three or four years. I'm loving it!

Thing is, I'm a funny actor, but I'm not good at being funny. I'm going to ramble for a second: I'm an actor who can make things funny in the moment, like in stakes or in circumstances or out of character.

I've grown tremendously as an actor by being there. It is comic writing the likes of which I don't know that I'll ever see again and it's been a great, great experience.

As an actor, these kinds of big-comedic-centerpiece characters is just one thing that I love to do.

I know that I want to consistently return to doing plays. That's one of the most important things because I think it's the best place for me to learn how to act.

Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.

I sort of consider myself a comedic actress, not a comedienne. I think it's different. You know, I'm not a stand-up or anything, but playing into comedic situations is sort of where, I think, my strength lies.

I was trained as a dramatic actor. I'm really excited to do some more dramatic stuff.

Joan Cusack is one of my favorite comedic actresses, and every part she plays is so different. She does the wackiest stuff and somehow it works. I like watching her a lot, and I think you can always go further and pull back. That's something I really have to work on.

When I started acting, my whole focus and intention was to work as a stage actor in a company where you're asked to different roles - do a comedy, do a tragedy, etc. I haven't had any reservations about jumping from one type of genre to another.

Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.

I'd definitely like to widen my film range. I mean, I'd love to do some theater.

I did theater for 15 years, and I spent a lot of time as an understudy.

I never went to drama school.

In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.

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

There is probably some great acting that goes on in movies from people who have never been on a stage, but if you are in for the long haul, you'd be missing an enormous part of what being an actor is if you're not part of theater.

A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.

It doesn't come easily to me, comedy. It's definitely not my strong suit. I'm probably more suited for drama and dramatic roles, but I certainly would love to be in quirky and fun movies.

My hopes and aspirations haven't changed since I started in this business. They've been to be able to play drama, to be able to play comedy, to be able to play leading men, and to be able to play character roles. I have no other aspirations in this regard.

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've been interested in the writing/directing thing and really fell into acting by complete accident.

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

I'm kind of thinking that I might start trying to do some acting. I really enjoy role play.