Aimee Garcia Quotes

Rhythm and timing are so important in comedic acting.

Drama is this incredibly vulnerable thing, but with comedy, you have to have a sense of rhythm and be very sensitive to the pace of things.

Drama is more focused, and it reveals itself to you, whereas comedy is just right there when you first read it.

I like making people laugh, so drama was never a big leap for me.

Comedy's easy for me now - it's all about timing and the way you deliver lines. I use facial expressions to get the point across.

You can't have good comedy without drama in it.

With comedy, you have to do it right. In a drama, there's a lot of different ways to succeed in a moment. But comedy comes from reality. You can't try to be funny.

Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people laugh and make them happy.

It's fun to do something funny and have the director laughing. It makes you feel good.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

For comedy, timing is key.

It's good to be funny when you are a comedian.

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

The jokes I used to do on 'Sex and the City' were always comic character things, and they were rarely hard jokes. As soon as you go up in front of people, it demands laughter.

I'm no way one of those comedians who want to do drama. I really do love comedies. I hope to go back to it.

Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

My job has always been to entertain people. I want people to laugh.

Class clowns become actors.

I will always love to perform standup comedy.

I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love the most.

I can laugh on cue, and it sounds real. People laugh with me.

A lot of people who do drama say comedy is the hardest thing, but, not wanting to sound like a bighead, comedy is easy for me, as I've always been fairly funny.

Kind of the exhausting thing about doing pure comedy, or something that's broader, is you're kind of a slave to the laugh. If it's not funny, then there's not much point in doing it. The kind of ueber-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, 'Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny.'

I love the part of Hector as it takes me back to playing eccentric parts. He is a funny character, which is fine by me as I've been playing for laughs for decades now! It's lovely to get a laugh; it's the best thing in the world!