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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.

I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.

As an actor, you work to the script: that's our main priority. But you have to be aware and look around for things that help you bring that little bit extra, that touch of realism that rams the point home.

With comedy, it's really hard to tell if something's working on the page - you really need the actors to bring it alive. The scariest part is if people will laugh or not.

I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.

Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it's like they throw a stick, and you want to fetch it and bring it back to them. You want a pat on the head for it.

You can't substitute the act of making people laugh. It's definitely something that actors like to do.

I am not interested in entertaining people. I think being an actor provides an opportunity to give people an experience they can connect to, reflect on, learn from, laugh at.

I've never thought that what I do as an actor does anything for anybody, other than making them laugh once in a while.

Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is.