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Music controls moods and accents life's moments. It's necessary for every situation. ”
I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is. ”
Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious. ”
I always like to watch comics and it's interesting that you can tell if someone's funny in 10 seconds. ”
Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive, it's funny? ”
My background is in musical comedy. I didn't know I was going to be an actor. But all my points of reference have to do with musical comedy and in being kind of a showoff. ”
People think that my favorite roles to do are villains, but I find comedy to be the most challenging and rewarding. ”
My first draft of Marvel Knights 'Black Panther' was not funny at all. They smartly rejected the entire script and counseled me to inject liberal doses of humor into very serious subject matter. ”
I never really considered 'Quantum & Woody' a comedic book or a funny book. I never thought of it as a satire. ”
Simon Pegg is terribly talented, very funny, such a delicious sense of humour. ”