It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom.
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To do comedy, you have to be a pretty good actor to start with.
It used to be that if you were on a sitcom you couldn't get work in film because it was so different. Now it's almost like you have to be on TV to do other film work.
Sitcoms are usually given short shrift by the acting profession, but it's quite an amazing job.
If you're trying to be an actor, sometimes you get lucky, and you end up on 'The Office', but if you don't, and you know that you have something to say, it's really, really fortunate to be able to get to write and star in your own comedy.
If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.
The hard thing is making sure you work with wonderful people and that you get something out of it so that you can get better as an actor.
As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.
The whole experience of doing a sitcom is... Telling jokes with such precision is really exciting, but it's also terrifying.
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.
I think that in any role you have, whether TV or film, it's hard to do comedy and drama within one story.
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