Dick Cavett Quotes

I like to make people laugh. That's for sure. And I really like to humiliate myself and go very far in derision and stuff. But no, I like everything. I started a little bit of doing drama, too. I like that, too. I guess I just want to touch everything.

The world's a stage, & everything else is Vaudeville.

I love acting. I love play-acting. I love pretending. I love telling stories so whether they be comedic or serious or whatever, it doesn't really matter to me. I enjoy telling a good story. I have it all in me.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep being lucky enough to entertain people anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium.

Improv is mostly what I've studied.

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

When you think about Broadway, you think broad and big, but the fact is there are so many plays that are very intimate, but fill a 1,500-seat house. Plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' have deep moments of silence and intimacy to them.

People think comedians don't do drama. Comics are drama. And what is drama, as opposed to comedy? It's all the same to me.

I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.

I'm never going to say, 'Well, I'm never going to do comedy again.' I love comedies, and it's what people know me for, so I love doing it... I don't really think about it in terms of 'Well, I should do this because it's comedy or drama.'

I've had a wonderful time in 'Foyle's War' and I don't mind being typecast. But I'm not prim. I'm chaotic, happy, and desperate to have some laughs. I'd love to do a comedy next, or something modern.

I don't mind being the funny character rather than the glamorous one, although I'm happy to do both.

I absolutely love doing comedy, however, of course as an actor, I would love the opportunity to do more dramatic roles.

The whole wrestling art, it's a whole form, is performance, and that's what makes it so exciting to do.

Anytime you give a man in a wig a microphone, anything can happen.

I'm addicted to acting.

I'm a total performer.

I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.

Bruce Willis is Bruce Willis in every single movie I've seen him in, except 'Death Becomes Her' and 'Mortal Thoughts,' which is another movie he was in that was very different from what he normally does.

I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.

Comedians are the monkeys of acting. When you go to the zoo, everybody loves the monkey exhibit.

As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

For me, making the show work was getting belly laughs - like most variety artists. But the straight actor believes you fix your performance in rehearsal and that's it.