Jeremy Brett Quotes

The kick [of comedy] is to think quickly. It's a great kick.

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

If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast.

I like to play the comic relief or parts that aren't necessarily comedic but that I can find the comedy in.

I don't consider myself a comedian, but you work with some comedians, and sometimes these guys are incredible on their feet - it's just amazing - and that's not what I do. But it's always fun, and I don't really care as long as the character is interesting.

I can make anything in the room funny in a few seconds.

I am genuinely interested in comedy and I know that I have good comic timing as well.

The public knows me through my life, which is not comical. But I feel very at home in comedy.

Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.

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

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.

Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.

It's really challenging to play comedy.

George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.

I like witty people, people who can be witty on the spot.

Theatre sports is the best improv training period.

Whenever I realize I'm being a goofball, I write it down. When I release the joke onstage, I love watching the effect it has on the audience. No one wants to see someone talk who takes themselves too seriously.

I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.

Comedy is second nature for me.

I have a lot of funny friends, and we joke a lot, but I've never really played comedic parts.

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

I was a bit of a goofball. I was always silly. I think that lends itself to being an actor.

Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy.

I can do a little bit of comedy. I can be in an in-between place, where I can do a little bit.