I never thought of myself as a comedic actor. I didn't go to Second City, that's not my background, I'm not a comic, I studied theater and my career when I started was a lot of dramatic stuff.
Humor is the most important thing in life. It trumps everything else and it's the only thing that helps me deal with everything else.
Sometimes you read a script and it's like, "You'll improv and this is just a blueprint of what the scene could be," and that's never a good sign. And it's never encouraging as an actor to take that on, really.
To me some of the funniest movies would be probably categorized in the dramatic genre, and likewise some of the most dramatic films, or films that have the most dramatic moments, are in comedies.
I don't really think in terms of genre, I think in terms of story and character.
There are lots of things that you can go down the list and say, "Oh, these are cliches, we've seen this before, just hits every checkpoint." All of that takes a secondary status for me if I'm reading something and I just really like the characters.
A lot of people say, "What's the worst part about being an actor?" And the worst part is that you're not a musician.
We all have different sides of our personalities, so I'd love to play some more different parts too.
Acting in general you just feel kind of stupid doing it anyway, but when you're pretending to be rolling around and dodging a foot or riding an ant, you're having to really do it seriously and there's nothing there. You've got to put faith in the process.
I'm not a comedian. I didn't study sketch comedy; my background isn't that.
There's something great about the idea of working the land and living communally. That's healthy. That's good.
I'm a huge David Wain fan. He's one of my best friends now, but he just makes me laugh continually, much to the annoyance of his wife.
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