Alec Baldwin Quotes

Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.

I'd played dumbasses a lot. On Mad About You, I played a very dumb waitress and they saw me.

There's a lot of improv in 'Girls'.

Acting, it's hit or miss. Make them laugh, make them cry; hopefully they have a little entertainment.

I love doing drama as much as I love doing comedy.

Being on 'The Office' prepared me for drama. Comedy got me ready, but once you get down to it, they're two sides of the same thing. I mean, the delivery has to be different - in drama, there's more time to breathe, and comedy's all about hitting the joke.

When I do theatre in New York, I typically only get cast in comedy.

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

You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

We're blessed on 'How I Met Your Mother' to feel like we're doing a bit of a funny playlet everyday.

I approach a comedy the same way I do a drama. I try to make it as real as possible.

It's a tremendous feeling walking on to a set with a live audience and making them laugh, but I love drama, and I love drama where there's the ability to bring comedy into it because in a lot of tragic circumstances in life there is comedy to be had.

I get to play a lot of hysterics.

Class clowns become actors.

I played comedies and dramas.

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 got into stand-up to get on a sitcom.

I'm really eager to go back and do some theater. I would love to do some more comedy as well because I think that's really the hardest thing to do; it's what I grew up doing, and I would love to go back and do that. I did a lot of theater growing up - musical theater.

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

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 always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.

I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.

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

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.