Emily Watson Quotes

I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.

I'm at least getting my foot in the door as far as doing straight dramatic parts, which no one would have ever considered me for in the '80s. I never objected to that because I love doing comedy, and I'm not the kind of actor that insists that unless you're doing a serious dramatic role, you're not acting.

Every role that I have taken on has demanded some kind of emotional range. I really, really would love to do a comedy, but that opportunity really hasn't opened up.

I don't want to be typecast as a heroine who does a certain kind of cinema, which is why I experiment with the types of films that I do. But yes, I won't deny that romantic love stories or romantic comedies are what I enjoy doing the most, because as an audience those are the kind of films that I like watching.

I haven't done much comedy; I would love to. I love doing dramatic roles, but I'd love to do comedy. I think it would be refreshing.

Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.

I think sometimes actors who have predominately done comedy get a little typecast by some people.

I would like to work in both comedy and drama. I'd love to do a really juicy drama that's just really real.

The Midwest isn't somewhere you mix with those from the performing arts. But my mum and dad would go off to Chicago every so often to see shows. They would bring back the albums and the movies, those little eight metres, and we would all watch. I think that was when I fell in love with acting.

I like comedy. I would love to do comedy for a long time.

I'd love to do all types of film, not just comedy, although I love comedy.

I loved the stage and then grew to love the camera.

I see myself as a comic but the acting helps sell tickets for gigs.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it's what I live for.

I really wanted to do plays since I was a little girl. I wanted to go to Juilliard and to learn, but then I really fell in love with doing film and television along the way.

I think I've proven with my career that I can play a wide variety of characters. Yet, I still get typecast as the crazy slob guy. That's how it always works.

I happen to love working in cinema, but the theater is always there... you know, and I would never shut the door on it. Even though it's been quite a bit of time since I've done a play, last one was in New York.

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

I'd love to do a comedy. Umm, I don't know when that will happen - maybe when I'm, like, 80 or something. But yeah, I'd love to. I'm just waiting for the right person to see my hilarious nature and offer me a comedy.

Back in Rome I did some acting lessons and I realised I loved it more than anything else I had ever done before.

I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.

I would love to do parts I have never done before, but unfortunately, if you have had success in a particular type of character, the casting agents think, 'Oh! We'll have something exactly like that.' It's very boring.

My drama instructor suggested I try comedy. I was resistant at first because I considered myself a serious actor, but of course I fell in love with it.

I would like to work in both comedy and drama.

I think I was 8 or 9 when I did my first play. It was at a community level, but that's when I knew that this is what I loved doing.