James D'arcy Quotes

I'm not a broad comedy guy. I've been funny in movies, but I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who's sometimes funny.

I don't know if I even consider myself a comedian really - I do comedic acting in some films and dramatic in others.

I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do.

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

I think comedy is the most difficult thing in the world, I really do.

I've never considered myself a comedian. I'm a comedic actor.

There are tons of things I'd love to do. I want to do comedy. It's not that I don't want to play a superhero, but I got to play Conan and Drogo.

Nothing is set up like a comedy bit. I did sitcoms for 10 years. Literally from 1989 to 1999. That's almost all I did. Whenever I got away from television I was like, "Phew, thank God that's over. I am never going back."

I'd love to do comedy. I'd probably have to get my laughing fits in check, because generally if I've done comedy, I'm usually the straight character that plays against the very obviously funny character, so that's really hard when the person is really hilarious.

I don’t like writing for comedians. I like writing for actors. The best comedians are the best actors.

I never thought of myself as a comedic actor. I didn't go to Second City, that's not my background, I'm not a comic, I studied theater and my career when I started was a lot of dramatic stuff.

As an artist I just think comedic actors are really underrated.

I think the first thing that I really did was 'Traffic Light,' which was more of a half-hour sitcom. And from there, I just got more comedic roles.

I've had varying luck with comedy in the past, but I'd really like to give that another go. I don't know if I'd chase down a part, but if the right thing came along I could certainly see myself stepping into that zone.

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 think I have specialised in comedy movies. And people have liked me in them.

I'd like to do more comedy, but i think my forte is still in the heavy. I'd love to do a comic lead, a musical.

In 27 years doing this, I've seen a handful of truly great, masterful standup sets. One was Tig Notaro last night at Largo.

When certain people hear "'SNL' comedy," rightfully so, you expect it to be a certain kind of goofiness.

I really wanted to do a comedy. I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one. I tried with two little parts in comedies that were more mainstream, I was kind of fumbling around, and then I read The Brothers Bloom and knew it was the one I wanted to jump into. Did it take adjusting? Actually, it's not really any different from doing drama.

I'm not a comedian. I didn't study sketch comedy; my background isn't that.

Comedy is commitment and playing a character and falling into the role, and I've been doing that since I was 19 years old.

When I'm doing stand-up, it's just me depending on me. I know how to go out there and make people laugh. I've been doing it since I was a teenager. I trust my instincts. I just go out and talk. A lot of the time I let the material come from the top of my head.

When someone says to me, do you do stand-up I say absolutely not. I like to think of it as a theatrical performance. With me the show changes maybe five to ten percent every night. Of course, whatever I see in front of me and sometimes I get on a little run about it and it changes the show. And my delivery is such that people who have seen me many times say Gee, I never heard that before. Actually, they have, but I might have changed it around.

If you ask me right now, you've seen the last of Mind of Mencia. I don't want to be a one-trick pony. I would rather walk away and do more movies, comedy and even some dramatic roles.