“The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry.”
Martin Landau On Sir Charlie Chaplin

“I'm an actor, I'm not a comedian, I never was a comedian.”
Jonah Hill

“I don't get considered for true comedies because I'm a 'dramatic' actor.”
Noah Emmerich

“About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.”
Ted Levine

“Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? ”
Jerry Lewis