Lucy Punch Quotes

I've never been an impressionist. I was doing Sofia Vergara and Elizabeth Dole. I'm sometimes so low-confidence and self-aware, so characters that are confident and ignorant and wrong are my favorite.

One was never taught how to begin at drama school. But all it required was one intake of breath.

I really like doing television shows, and I anticipated doing a comedy, because that's the place I feel the most comfortable - those are the risks I want to take.

What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.

Over the years, I've had a slight ebbing and flowing of confidence in my non-comedic role abilities.

One of the reasons that I needed to become an actor was that I didn't have any self-confidence.

I sort of consider myself a comedic actress, not a comedienne. I think it's different. You know, I'm not a stand-up or anything, but playing into comedic situations is sort of where, I think, my strength lies.

To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.

What you learn from studying acting is that you have to have the courage to just make strong choices.

Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really well to get a good performance out of them. But, if you have a comedian on the set, you can tell them, 'Hey, you really are screwing this up,' and then they just get better.

People ask me, 'How do you remember your lines?' That's nothing. That is the least of my concerns.

I like finding stuff that I suck at and trying to get better. So I'm taking classes, getting myself comfortable in an acting scene. You've got to work out those ticks. For instance, standing up used to be really hard for me. I act much better if I'm sitting down.

When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.

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

As an actor, it's amazing to get to create different characters.

The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really.

Any acting job that I ever got, I always treated it like I was a neophyte; I didn't know what I was doing, and I was going to work just as hard as I do on my stand-up.

If I could go back to my first year of acting school, I'd probably say: 'Relax. Stop taking yourself so seriously.'

I become a better actor after I step on a stage in front of, like, 500 people when it's just me, a microphone and my guitar. You don't get as nervous walking into a room in front of 3 or 4 people and to do a scene or to walk on a set. You gain confidence.

I think if you're an actor you kind of have to be willing to look stupid.

On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.

The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.

The first thing you have to get used to in any kind of acting is the ability to make a fool of yourself. If you haven't learnt how to make a fool of yourself, you shouldn't be on the boards. That's absolutely what it's all about.

I mean, I've done musicals, but it's not my best thing.

I've always been fairly confident in my acting.