With a lot of comedies, the characters go on a journey, and they come back, and they're the exact same people.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character.
A good movie makes the audience feel like they've journeyed with the characters.
At any period of an actor's life, it's fairly likely that they'll be cast in ways that are reminiscent. That's the way it goes.
I believe people leave a theater bonding with characters. Story is the vessel that carries character. Comedy is a very important component of expressing character.
There's probably been very few people in comedy that have a diversified background as I do.
A lot of times in movies, especially in sequels, the characters become caricatures and just sort of improv machines and joke machines, rather than people you can actually connect to.
The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.
If you're doing television, you get to be a character for a long time, and the cast around you becomes like family. You get attached to playing that one character, and it's hard leaving them behind.
A lot of comedies fall apart because they just go from joke to joke, and the characters are all sort of being crazy off on their own.
When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.