59 Quotes by Eugene Levy

One of the biggest misconceptions about me is that I’m a comedian, which I’m not. A comedian is someone who can stand up in front of an audience and make you laugh. I’ve never done stand-up and I never will. I’m a comic actor. My comedy comes through my characters.

I don’t believe I’ve ever played a hip dude. I don’t think I would have the wherewithal to do that.

I would love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins. How and why that would happen in a comedy I’m not sure – why he would be dragged over to my side, or I’d be be dragged over to his side.

We went through all the scenes and they became kind of funny and they expanded a little bit and because it seemed to be working so well in the movie, they added a couple of things later on in the movie and that’s how it turned out.

I let the comedy come through the character and just try to make sure that everything is kind of rounded in a truth, in a reality, because that’s what I need to make a character work.