Comic Actor Quotes

I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.

Clay Aiken is amazing beyond that glorious voice. Turns out he is an excellent comic actor and a master of character.

Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.

I don't have moments of weakness. I'm Rik Mayall.

Will Ferrell is probably the funniest comic actor, certainly of my generation. I am a huge, huge Will Ferrell fan. I'm not a huge comedy buff, truthfully. What I find funny is either something unbelievably stupid, like Dumb And Dumber or Airplane!, where the jokes are just so stupid and pointless, or something like The Office or The Comeback, where the humor is in the excruciating awkwardness of a situation. Stella kind of explores both of those, stupidity and awkwardness.

(The Nutty Professor) was a labor of love. It was a total film. It was the most productive, creative work of my life.

Whoopi Goldberg, Lily Tomlin, Julia Louis-Dreyfus - I put Issa Rae in that category of comic genius.

I have no problem in doing comedy, as I am happily consolidating my image of a comic actor.

Robin [Williams] was a world treasure. As we mourn his tragic death, we must remember him for the great waves of laughter that he was able to illicit from us, how his humor and insights - though they came from a place of pain and uncertainty - connected us and reminded us of how flawed and fragile...how human we are. How we are capable of moments of inspired transcendence and others of unspeakable despair.

I would like to feel that I have a range and that it's not just a matter of being a comic actor or a serious actor, because those are really artificial classifications, I think.

It was very natural that people just think of me as a comic actor.

Being on 'SNL' gives you a unique experience that almost no one else has. It's like Harvard for the comic actor.

Michael Bates was a very funny actor; he'd served in India, could speak Urdu, and had great comic timing.

I played few hero roles in the initial days of my career, but audiences loved me for my comic timing and, therefore, I later turned comedian.

I want to be an actor, maybe a comic actor but a real actor.

I want to get away from my comic image. Not that I won't do any more comic roles, but I won't opt for the usual 'Govinda' type of comedies.

My favorite, favorite, favorite, and the greatest comedian that could ever exist if you could Frankenstein a comedian together, would be one part Richard Pryor, one part Peter Sellers. That would be the greatest comic actor.

I became a guy who wanted to be a comedian someday, or a comic actor. The way I put it was, I'll be like Danny Kaye. He was kind of the model I had in mind.

I never thought of myself as a comedic actor. I didn't go to Second City, that's not my background, I'm not a comic, I studied theater and my career when I started was a lot of dramatic stuff.

One of the biggest misconceptions about me is that I'm a comedian, which I'm not. A comedian is someone who can stand up in front of an audience and make you laugh. I've never done stand-up and I never will. I'm a comic actor. My comedy comes through my characters.

I once read that in vaudeville, it was often the straight guy who got paid more than the comic because that's the tougher job. He has to set up the jokes in just the right way.

I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor.

As a comic and as an actor, I think you've got to be partially crazy.

Before people figured out I was funny, I got cast quite a bit as either a rapist or serial killer or the guy who catches those people.