Alice Lowe Quotes

I had been an abject fan of Martin and Lewis when I was a kid. I just thought they were terribly funny. None of their movies captured the kind of chemistry they really had.

I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone.

Class clowns become actors.

I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love the most.

Every movie I do, or when I'm on the sketch comedy show, I don't really get into it until I have an outfit or something funny with my head or face or something.

Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.

Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird.

I just play the little guy, except I play him through dance.

I liked playing Morph in Mash and Peas and doing Phil Daniels in the Blur Rock Profile was a giggle too.

I really enjoy Martin Sheen - he is very unexpectedly funny, very quick.

I had always been heavily influenced by stand-up. I was in a comedy team called Red Johnny And The Round Guy.

Cheech and I used to call ourselves musicians; we never called ourselves comedians. We were musicians that were funny.

When I played Imunique on 'Love That Girl,' that was on the other side of comedy - loud and out there.

Bill Murray is a wonderful actor, and he's very funny, and I've seen him be serious and terrific.

My husband and I are both actors; we're obviously dramatic.

I always approach every role through a lens of comedy.

I feel really comfortable with going for the reality of the drama, but I'm not much for the comedy of it. You have to make people laugh, or you have to be true to the character in such a way that makes people laugh. It's a whole different thing.

I have been lucky enough to work in all kinds of comedy. I prefer working with other people. I could never do stand-up.

All I can do is keep my nose down and shoot the scene, shoot the scene, make it funny, make it funny, make it funny.

I think Bad News Barrett was just having a laugh every single night.

You gotta have fun with a song, make somebody laugh. You gotta have character. A hard punchline can make you laugh, but you gotta know how to say it.

I got to play a funny part [in the The Master Of Disguise]. There was one thing my character did that involved flatulence and laughing at the same time - that was in the script - and that was basically what sold me on it. I really thought, "This can't help but be funny." And when I saw the film, I was proud that I'd had those moments.

All jokes aside, it's a very difficult job playing the straight man. Jason is potentially the most brilliant straight man that ever was because he's also really funny while doing it, which is even harder. I've always seen myself playing characters who are flawed. We use comedy in our lives to obscure the drama.

The idea of the straight man is very important. But I'd rather it be somebody else, because it's not as fun. And when I say somebody else, of course I mean Jason Bateman. He's born to play boring characters because he's such a bore. He's one of the most boring human beings.

What people like are things to laugh at. Funny shows. It's all in the execution, the writing and the characters, not the setting. And the writing and the execution and the characters are GREAT on (Everybody Loves Raymond).