Leslie Jordan Quotes

Things that go on at Happy Times are very funny this year, and if you were watching last year, some of the people you saw then as basically extras emerge as real characters in their own right this season, at least to some degree.

Dick Van Dyke spent most of his time setting everybody else up.

I like to play the comic relief or parts that aren't necessarily comedic but that I can find the comedy in.

Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things.

When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other. I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

I think the kick to doing comedy is just to get in a film with really funny people and let them do their jobs. I find that in most comedies, I'm not the funny one, which works out great.

Because Buffy really has become the straight man, every once in a while it's nice to be the one that tells the joke and it's nice to be the one that is the joke and it's nice to do something that's a little bit different.

You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it.

I love doing comedy. One of my favorite things in the world is to do 'Parks and Recreation'; a big fun character.

My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film.

'Homeland' really is one of those shows where they start to write more or less depending on what's kind of going on in a relationship between characters.

But he did say that the character would be on the sidelines in movies One and Two, and move into the middle with number Three, but I didn't realize he would move in with quite such a bang.

I usually start with an ending, then outline high points of things that happen, and kind of make up the rest as I go along. Occasionally, the characters surprise me, and I wonder how we got here. Other times, the characters are stubborn and won't do something I want them to in the story.

There is a natural progression to 'Lost,' and as the story goes forward, it's going to change. It's not a static story. The franchise of 'Lost' is not characters sitting on a beach.

There is still a lot to be said for the well-made, witty, clever, three-act comedy.

I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.

In the end, my reasons for moving down the timeline and introducing a new cast have more to do with keeping myself entertained, on the assumption that if I get bored, my readers are going to be even more bored.

I have things planned for every character like what they're doing down the road and coming to different realizations but I don't have how they overlap.

Playing Chelsea on 'The Suite Life of Zack and Cody' really helped with my over-the-top comedy.

I like surprising my audiences, and it's compulsory to have fun and be silly; I never take myself quite too seriously.

Art should be witty, like a good Eddie Murphy movie, to make your life a little easier and better.

I just try to get people to laugh - I'm not trying to change the world or anything.

Sometimes shows get into their 5th and 6th season and you're like, where can you go? But 'Dexter' is still so strong, it's really refreshing.

There's an arc to an action sequence, and you need to come out the other end knowing your character better, and maybe the story has moved forward in a compelling way.

Working with Lucille Ball was just a master class in how to do comedy.