Jon Richardson Quotes

The joke or the pratfall is easy for me to do.

There's nothing more difficult to do than comedy.

I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.

For comedy, timing is key.

It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.

I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

What's the funniest play ever written? I used to think it was 'Noises Off,' but now that I've seen 'The Liar,' I'm not so sure.

I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.

Some comedies, they want you falling on your face and doing silly things.

In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.

I honestly think comedy is probably the hardest stuff to do.

I always approach every role through a lens of comedy.

Drama is easy. Comedy's hard.

Hollywood comedy has gotten really silly and absurd, and I like that.

I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when I've figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on a banana peel.

I have always had huge respect for comedians/comediennes. It's because comedy is very hard to portray.

I am genuinely interested in comedy and I know that I have good comic timing as well.

Do you know what the key to comedy is? Timing.

I would love to do a comedy, and I think physical comedy is something I probably have a knack on.

I love comedy that seems kind of a little bit absurd.

I love doing comedy - I get a laugh out of it, it's not so serious.

I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.

I don't know how to be like a Bill Murray or a Will Ferrell, these guys who know how to make a line funny just by, I don't know, some extra-sense perception. I only know character and emotion and real acting; that's all I know how to do.