Lynn Whitfield Quotes

I love playing different characters and I love doing fun things and I love to entertain people, whether that be in a comedy or a drama. If I get you to laugh or I get you to cry I'm super stoked, as morbid as that might sound.

I describe myself as someone who was always putting on a show, even when I was a little girl. I wanted to be an actress but I liked organizing everybody and putting on plays. I was a producer.

I love comedy, but I actually do prefer drama because I am already animated as a human being.

To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.

I do idiosyncratic dramedies.

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.

Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors.

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

I'd love to do drama if it was interesting.

Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

I'd love to do a really juicy drama that's just really real. On the comedy side, I'd love to do something like '21 Jump Street.' I cannot stop watching that movie. Really funny, really extreme comedies are definitely my favorite.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.

I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me.

I like drama. My first movie that I did, 'Soul Survivors', was a drama, and I'm just drawn to that; that's sort of my forte.

We like drama. Even in our comedy, we like drama.

You know, I remember watching Morgan Freeman when he did the two Alex Cross movies, and he's so confident that he's going to knock the scene dead. And I'm really confident that I can tell a good story now, so I just don't worry about things.

You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it.

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.

I want to do drama, light comedy, the whole range.

Drama and comedy, to me, are all about being surprising, coherent, and true, all at once.

I like to do comedy, but I'll be perfectly honest, I prefer to do drama and more character-driven-based stuff, generally.

Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.