Val Kilmer Quotes

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

I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Hey, I think comic actors are the best actors.

I like all Jim Carrey films. They're really funny.

My ultimate is Peter Sellers - his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at the same time. He was just relatable, real at the same time as insane. I find Ricky Gervais absolutely hilarious. Steve Martin is another hero of mine - he's a genius.

I am desperate to do a comedy now.

The genius of the Marx Brothers is for parody. They never are themselves. They exist too abundantly to be content with being that - they must go on, by the rapidest of transitions, to being something else. Groucho, in my opinion the bright star among the three, is never anything but the thing he is at the moment pretending to be.

Gene Wilder is so funny.

I like dramatic stuff, and I have a goofball side, too. I like to do comedy and off-beat things as much as something really, really serious.

When you saw Jon Lovitz or Dana Carvey or Phil Hartman doing something, they were acting. It was real acting. Like, they were acting like that person. They weren't like - it wasn't even like they were really trying to go for a laugh, especially in Phil Hartman's case.

Drama comes more naturally to me. It's the comedy you really have to delve into.

I'm usually cast by people who are oddly goofy.

I've usually had two styles: the Fletch character and the Clark Griswold character.

People like Bill Murray are incredible at what they do and are definitely my flavour. Although Will Ferrell, Sacha Baron Cohen and Ricky Gervais are also incredible actors. In their comedy, they make these stupid people feel so real. These guys are really setting the bar very high, and I learn as much from them about acting as I do about comedy.

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

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.

In comedy, my strengths are improvisation.

My dad turned me onto Peter Sellers as a kid. I loved the fact that he was a unique combination of being extremely subtle and over-the-top all at the same time, and that's a hard thing to do. I admire that.

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.

It's really challenging to play comedy.

I do more comedy, actually. I don't do the classic novelas.

When I was a child, I was referred to as the Danny Kaye of the family, because I was always impersonating and mimicking people. I was a song and dance man.

I have deep comedic roots, and I want to be funny.