A Quote by Shelley Berman

I was an actor before becoming a comedian.

Shelley Berman

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Actor Becoming Before Comedian

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Shelley Berman
American - Comedian
Born: February 3, 1926

I'm quietly becoming New York's premiere actor. People don't understand. They have me pigeon-holed as a comedian.

Colin Quinn

I didn't want to be a comedian. I wanted to be an actor - maybe a comic actor, but a real actor - by real, I mean not a comedian. I wanted to be an actor.

Gene Wilder

Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.

Hal Roach

I always fancied myself more of an actor than a comedian before I realized that only assholes make that kind of distinction.

Rob Corddry

I'm an actor, I'm not a comedian, I never was a comedian.

Jonah Hill

I tried many different things before becoming an actor, so this is my plan B.

Mark Bonnar

After leaving school, I worked as an electrician before becoming an actor.

David Jason

My fun as an actor and my task as an actor is to transform myself to become other people. I enjoy becoming characters but I don't enjoy becoming caricatures. The research I do is only necessary in so far as we move into other dimensions.

David Suchet

I learned so much from my life as an actor, as a kid actor through being an adult actor, and then becoming a writer and producer and doing animation.

Pamela Adlon

If I was a young man, I might have bypassed the whole comedian-actor thing and just been a filmmaker. Then I'd probably have spent my whole life going, 'I wonder if I could have been a comedian.'

Bobcat Goldthwait

My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor, and if fame follows suit, that's fine.

Ed Speleers

My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor and if fame follows suit, that's fine.

Ed Speleers

Before becoming an actor I kind of just wanted to paint and live somewhere and do something low-key and artistic.

Norman Reedus

Sydney and I made so many pictures together we were becoming Abbott and Costello, so we broke up. You know Greenstreet was a comedian before he played 'The Maltese Falcon' and in that picture his dialogue consisted of seven pages in a row which he memorized weeks ahead.

Peter Lorre

'The Walking Dead' was my favorite show before I even auditioned for it. That's every actor's dream, to be on a show that they're a fan of. It's just dark, and as a comedian, I'm drawn to dark things.