Robert Ben Garant Quotes

I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.

I can't write a joke. I could never write. I do a lot of stories and I call them stories, but they're just comedy recitals on a given subject.

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

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

I did sketch comedy for years. I've always enjoyed it.

I don't mind doing scripted material. It's actually kind of a relief, because improvising is a little bit like screenwriting on your feet.

When I read a script, I have to see the funny, and if I can see it's funny, it helps me to be able to transmit that.

I did a lot of serious plays, and I did the Oxford Review as well, which is supposed to be funny, but I'm not sure how funny we were when we did it. Then, when I finished my course, it was only then that I decided to go to drama school and try and do acting because I was enjoying it so much and so on.

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!

When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.

First and foremost, I just want to write comedy.

I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

Good acting is thinking in front of the camera. I just do that and apply a sense of humor to it. You have to trust the audience to get it.

I think everyone's different but in comedy, I try to do my scene to make the director and the other actors laugh. If I can make them laugh and we have the same sensibility, then I'm on the right page.

A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.

I don't really know how to act that much. I'm quite good at comedy, but it's mostly acting naturally.

I'm good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue.

If I'm doing comedy, I try to improvise a lot. Even if they don't use it, it helps me loosen up and figure out the character.

It's the comedy that guides me. The acting and all that stuff comes second. It's equally important, but I just try to do that as best as I can.

Because I do mostly comedy, I'm usually working with friends, and it's usually a ball.

I really want to do comedy.

That's what comedy is like: You have to force yourself out in the world because you're always one experience away from new material.

For me, the ideal job as an actor would be something that is intrinsically a drama but to which I could bring in as much humor as possible.

I really love standup, and I really love writing standup.

I've never written jokes. I mean, I'll write things on a piece of paper and riff on them onstage.