Comedic actors can be looked at as a lower form because we have to put ourselves in a lower place than most of the audience. I think lofty emotions are somehow considered more special. The best stories in the world to me are the ones that elicit a real emotion, but have humour.Jim Carrey, This much I know by Tony Horkins in The Observer
I never wanted to be an actor, and to this day I don’t. I can’t get a handle on it. An actor wants to become someone else. I am a song-and-dance man and I enjoy being myself, which is all I can do.Dick Van Dyke, as quoted in Halliwell’s Who’s Who in the Movies
Acting is therefore the lowest of the arts, if it is an art at all.George Moore, Mummer-Worship
I’m not as funny as Chandler is. Because Chandler has thirty people writing for him.Matthew Perry, GQ (November 2000)