Historically, a successful life in comedy is a dream that's as equally pondered and unpursued as being an astronaut.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If I tried to do comedy for the rest of my career, I would not be very successful.
Life is dramatic and comedic at times. Sometimes in the most dramatic situations, there is comedy. And good comedy comes from a sense of reality.
You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it.
I've been lucky enough to do theatre, film, and television for a career. Unless I get offered a job as an astronaut, I won't stray too far from it.
Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.
Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.
I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.
It's like, if I had the luxury of choice, and didn't have to worry about making a living, I would definitely want to get into whatever field it was that allowed me to push further and further comedically. Because that's the joy of it.
I saw this movie 'The Right Stuff' when I was in college, and it really rekindled my interest in being an astronaut. I started taking those steps, and then I realized it would be the chance of a lifetime. It would be a dream life: not just a job, but the whole life.
I think that comedy is one of the more serious things that you can do in our day, especially in the world that we're living in.