Michael Shannon Quotes

I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all.

People think comedians don't do drama. Comics are drama. And what is drama, as opposed to comedy? It's all the same to me.

I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he's hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations.

I studied theater in college, and I absolutely knew that I loved acting, and I knew that I loved theater.

All the plays I do are comedies. I love listening to people laugh. I couldn't do the dramas like 'All My Sons.'

I do enjoy doing action quite clearly, but I also really like doing comedy.

I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn't want to continue opera because I wanted to act.

I haven't had a lot of comedy come my way as a performer.

I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.

When I was younger, I actually wanted to be a CIA agent. Really. I even did the online questionnaire.

Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama, and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.

I do more comedy, actually. I don't do the classic novelas.

Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.

I'm a consumer as well as a performer. Among my leisure-time activities is going to the theater. I'm very interested in that.

I think actors who take things too far are funny.

I always found that drama, really good drama, has a lot of comedy in it.

Hey, I think comic actors are the best actors.

Acting was my first love.

I'll probably stick to comedy for the time being. I mean, a great piece of work is a great piece of work, and I'm up for good work anytime. But I do love comedy!

I haven't done much comedy; I would love to. I love doing dramatic roles, but I'd love to do comedy. I think it would be refreshing.

I love doing comedy and I love watching comedy... I'm more inclined to go watch a Seth Rogen film than a serious Oscar drama.

I love doing comedy, and I don't get a chance to much. I get to play lots of serious people, and killers, and people with a lot of... sheriffs. Good people and bad people, but lots of drama, and to get a chance to be genuinely silly is a great treat for me.

I always say, 'Thank goodness 'Wimpy Kid' was a comedy because my singing in that was more humorous than professional.'

I would like to explore comedy more. It's not something that I've done a lot of. Obviously, I'm very at home in drama. I like everything.

The theatre is one of those muscles - if you don't exercise it, it becomes a strange and truly fearful place.