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It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.

I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me.

I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.

I try to give all my characters a sense of humor, so I guess I feel like I have done comedy, but maybe I'm better known for drama.

When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.

My comedy does not come from a place of deep cynicism, and I tend to play characters who are naive in some way.

I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I'll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets.

I was a precocious only child, and then I went through a fat, awkward stage for several years, so I learned to fall back on my humor and personality when I was growing up. It's how you survive, so I think it was more of a natural progression for me, developing into comedy.