Illeana Douglas Quotes

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

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.

My job has always been to entertain people. I want people to laugh.

I've made great friends through acting. When I'm with Victoria Wood and Julie Walters, we have grand fun. We can make each other howl with laughter because we know each other so well.

You can't substitute the act of making people laugh. It's definitely something that actors like to do.

The main thing about doing a comedy is that you spend most of your days really happy and laughing.

It's the most amazing cast, a dream cast. We laugh all the time.

We can't laugh quite as much on camera, but we sure do on the set.

I don't mind doing scripted material. It's actually kind of a relief, because improvising is a little bit like screenwriting on your feet.

The most important thing for me as an actor playing a character is to make you laugh. That's my No. 1 goal.

The character of Johnny Drama was a lot of fun to play.

In school, I was playing old men and women, babies, Russian people, and all sorts of weird parts - a lot of comedy - and that's sort of like home to me.

Each cast member brings their own vibe and antics to the set. You're constantly surrounded by fun loving people who can make you laugh in their own way.

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 it makes a difference when the actors are enjoying it more than anything because we have a real blast on 'Torchwood.'

Thing is, I'm a funny actor, but I'm not good at being funny. I'm going to ramble for a second: I'm an actor who can make things funny in the moment, like in stakes or in circumstances or out of character.

Most of the stuff I do on the show comes out of me just trying to make my friends laugh.

The first time I ever did a play, in junior high school, I said to myself, 'Hey, people like me doing this. I'm making them laugh.'

I love doing comedy. It's a lot of fun.

If you're improvising with Paul Reiser, man, you'd better hold on tight!

My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do.

Between us and the writers, it was comedy hour the whole time. We could hardly get through it.

I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

At the end of the day, I know that I make my living by dressing up, fooling around, playing pranks and giving people a good time. I am enjoying the ride.

I love comedy and did a lot of comedy in college. I was in an improv comedy group with my friends.