Hill Harper Quotes

I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.

Perhaps I've been perceived more as a romantic comedy actor, but overall, I enjoy acting in any shape or form.

If I ideally can, I'd do a comedy, and then I would do something where I'm a mental patient, and then I'd go back and do a comedy so I can continue to express myself in different ways.

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.

I don't know about the romantic comedy route, although never say never.

I like to think I've done a lot of different kinds of roles, but obviously I have done quite a lot of comedies.

I'm always drawn towards the darker stuff, because I think it's just a lot more interesting. But it's also good fun doing the comedy, and I think that's why 'Misfits' has been great in that way, as you get a really good balance. I think it's best to try and do everything as an actor, really.

My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.

I've got a range as an actor! There was a time I played dramatic leading men.

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.

I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself.

When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you.

I've played such serious characters that no one sees me the way I actually am, which is completely cheesy and goofy, so it would be fun to do a romantic comedy and just have a good laugh.

My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.

The chance to play a romantic character who kisses somebody onscreen was one of the elements that made me want to do 'The Stand.' The more you can do, the better, and I've been known as a character actor.

As it is, I have a limited range as an actor - light comedy. I have never been a fan of romantic comedies, and yet that is what I have ended up mostly doing.

I want to do action, romantic comedy, and I love drama.

Yeah, romantic comedies are the hardest movies to make. Maybe one works a year.

I would have loved to do romantic comedies. That's what I think I would be best at.

Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in.

I'd always been quite wary of doing a romantic comedy. They all seem the same to me.

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.

My main goal, when I started acting, was to show as much versatility as possible because I like playing diverse roles.

When I read the script, I liked the script very much and I thought it was a marvelous part for her, because I think it is a change of pace. I mean, we know how wonderful she is in romantic comedy.

It's really kind of a luxury for an actor to have the opportunity to show such different types of characters. I actually left 'Cowboys & Aliens' and went straight into 'The Change-Up.' It was kind of a funny change of pace.