Gary Cole Quotes

To my family and friends, I'm very definitely a clown. But do you know what? Doing a drama would almost seem easy because I wouldn't need to find that gag in a line.

It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom.

Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.

I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.

Sometimes I'm doing a big movie, or sometimes I'm doing a TV show, but as an actor, it's almost the same thing for me. If I'm doing action, or comedy, or something more heartfelt, it's a different approach, but it's all acting for me.

Acting, it's hit or miss. Make them laugh, make them cry; hopefully they have a little entertainment.

It's the comedy that guides me. The acting and all that stuff comes second. It's equally important, but I just try to do that as best as I can.

I don't really look at genre. I mean, sometimes you might be playing heavies a lot, and you're like, 'Hey, it'd be nice to do a romantic comedy.'

As an actor, you can do everything. I grew up in the theater, and you could do a musical, a comedy, a tragedy.

I love doing drama as much as I love doing comedy.

People like Bill Murray are incredible at what they do and are definitely my flavour. Although Will Ferrell, Sacha Baron Cohen and Ricky Gervais are also incredible actors. In their comedy, they make these stupid people feel so real. These guys are really setting the bar very high, and I learn as much from them about acting as I do about comedy.

I went to NYU drama school, so I was a very serious actress. I used to do monologues with a Southern accent, and I was really into drama and drama school. And then, in my last year of drama school, I did a comedy show, and the show became a big hit on campus.

I'm excited to play any character that is based in reality. And I'd be even more excited if I can add a comic element to my role.

The only two characters I can play convincingly are myself and a dumber and sweeter version of myself.

I was the class clown in school, and I was also a child actor - not on television, but in the theatre.

I don't think comedic parts come naturally to me.

Going on stage is a performance, it's an act; you're playing a version of yourself. I don't give it a lot of thought. I clock on, I tell jokes, I clock off again.

It's challenging to judge a TV show because you don't have any lines. You just have to be yourself.

I don't play roles, I play characters. There is a vast difference between the two.

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 would love to be the John Belushi of drag. He was fearless.

Normally, if you play a part, you have the words, and you invent the personality out of your experience, your knowledge - your life, in a way.

When I was in high school, I was so in love - as I should have been - with the performance aspect of theater and just the literal act of performing.

I had done acting at school, and it felt like something that came very naturally to me.

As an actor I am prepared for every role, that's my profession.