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I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But they're also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset.

I'm just an actor. If it's drama, I add as much humour as the part will stand. And if it's a comedy, add as much drama as you can, so it balances out; you don't wanna be too serious.

I don't really find things funny unless they're deeply tragic at the same time. I think if you're funny just for the sake of being funny, it's just frivolous nonsense. To me, all the best comic plays have been written about really serious and rather bleak things.

I think it's harder to go from comedy to drama than from drama to comedy. Seeing you dramatic all the time, they crave to see you being silly or funny. But, seeing you in comedy all the time, it's hard to see that person go be serious, for some reason.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

In order for comedy to be funny you have to play the truth of the moment. But if you're not being completely truthful to the basis of the character, its not going to be funny.

To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction.

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.

When you're a comedic actor and you're used to just getting laughs, it's kind of scary to go serious, even for a second.

As far as I can tell, comedians are pretty serious people, and that's why they make fun of things all of the time.