Ariel Winter Quotes

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.

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

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.

I really just love making comedies; I love doing characters.

I never do anything for the camera. It's my job to pretend the camera's not there. I'm never moving for the camera.

Even writing a script which will be funny is not easy. To make the script come to life and make the audience laugh, I will call myself more of an actor if I am able to do that.

Everyone says comedy is really hard, but with 'The Office' the naturalism was everything so it didn't feel like doing comedy; it just felt like doing a really offensive character who thought he was funny.

Fine-tuning a play like 'Uncle Vanya,' which is already well-known to the people playing it, is not so much a verbal exercise as it is a visceral one.

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

I like comedy. I would love to do comedy for a long time.

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

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

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.

Acting-wise, I haven't done a lot of comedy, so I would love to work with Jane Lynch. I think she's hilarious.

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

I can apply myself to the format of 'SNL,' I can apply myself to the format of 'Conan,' but at the same time, I'm still being J. B. Smoove. I'm not changing up my style, I'm not changing up how I think, what's funny to me, my delivery, the way I carry myself.

Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.

I did a lot of serious plays, and I did the Oxford Review as well, which is supposed to be funny, but I'm not sure how funny we were when we did it. Then, when I finished my course, it was only then that I decided to go to drama school and try and do acting because I was enjoying it so much and so on.

Class clowns become actors.

Live-action is more fun for me, because you're acting with people. When you do voice-acting, many times you're not even in the room with the person that you're acting with.

I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.

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

I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.

My drama instructor suggested I try comedy. I was resistant at first because I considered myself a serious actor, but of course I fell in love with 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.