Stephen Root Quotes

I like a lot of takes. I just go on until the actors get it right.

Class clowns become actors.

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.

On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.

Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard.

It's fun to do something funny and have the director laughing. It makes you feel good.

I love 'Saturday Night Live,' and it's such a funny show. I don't know if I'm funny enough to be on it but definitely would be interested in doing it.

It's funny, because I was trained as a dramatic actor at New York's Colonnades Theater Lab in the '70s, along with Jeff Goldblum, Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman. People I worked with there saw a comedian in me. I'm still most at home in comedy.

I think everyone's different but in comedy, I try to do my scene to make the director and the other actors laugh. If I can make them laugh and we have the same sensibility, then I'm on the right page.

If you're in scenes with a guy you know really well in a comedy, you tend to crack each other up too much.

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

Melissa McCarthy - she's so funny, and she keeps bringing it.

I knew Steve Carell because of Little Miss Sunshine, so I felt very comfortable with him. Maybe he always does it to guest stars, but I felt as though he was being particularly funny with me, and particularly stretching the boundaries of improvisation. He's such a comic genius. I hate to use that word, because everyone throws it around, but Steve Carell is channeling something.

I'm an actor who loves doing comedy.

Nick Offerman is my hero. He just cracks me up. He's so funny, but he's a true actor, too - he's bringing so much when he's onscreen.

Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people laugh and make them happy.

You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.

I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.

I'm a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys - movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.

I don't like improvising on camera, particularly, but very often, a scene will not be working, and you rehearse it once or twice, and you realize something's missing. So I'll play with it until it makes sense.

In the happy scenes there were really fun times. Sean would say really funny stuff because he likes to improv. I would want to laugh, but you are not allowed to do that during the take.

I'm really not an actor of any kind. I've always seen myself as an entertainer, someone who makes people laugh. That's all I've ever wanted to do. 'Doctor Who' has always just been me, really.

It's really challenging to play comedy.

I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.

When I read a script, I have to see the funny, and if I can see it's funny, it helps me to be able to transmit that.