I can be really silly, but I never get to do that. I'm always playing on-the-nose characters, professionals - lawyers, a serious news anchor, people with a really focused energy, which can become a cliched type.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I made my living in comedy, but I'm not a silly person. I've got all these sides to me. Even in my movies that I've written myself, the characters sometimes border on great anger or nutsiness or other kinds of behavior. I'm not just doing fart jokes for two hours.
I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain.
I do whatever I need to do to get into character. Sometimes it's being incredibly quiet, and sometimes it's being loose and goofy.
Still when I go on talk shows, I worry that I have to live up to a comedic persona.
I try to be like a sponge when I'm around other actors, picking things up about the way they work and how they do things.
I like surprising my audiences, and it's compulsory to have fun and be silly; I never take myself quite too seriously.
I just always gravitate toward the kind of characters or people that maybe you don't want to talk to for a long time at a party, but you do like to watch what they're doing.
You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.
I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.
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.