Zach Woods Quotes

Zach Woods

Profession : Actor

Birth : September 25, 1984

The parts of people that are the most lovable is usually the thing they're least willing to share: the tender, vulnerable side of people that's endearing and magnetic and lovable - that's the part they hide.

Zach Woods

I would like to play romantic parts.

Zach Woods

Sometimes you'll see people give performances in comedy with an ironic detachment where they'll sort of be remarking on the character from outside of it. They're sort of commenting as they're playing the character. I think it's hard not to do that. I've certainly done that.

Zach Woods

If I'm doing comedy, I try to improvise a lot. Even if they don't use it, it helps me loosen up and figure out the character.

Zach Woods

I think that if you're improvising on TV, it's a great way to help the dialogue between actors and writers.

Zach Woods

Sometimes you read pilots and, understandably, they're doing such a frantic tap dance for approval. I get why - it's such an incredibly competitive market.

Zach Woods

I've played a lot of characters who are creeps or weirdos, with a deep darkness underneath the surface.

Zach Woods

When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.

Zach Woods

By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.

Zach Woods

When improv is bad, it's excruciating to watch, and to be involved with it is a unique type of torture.

Zach Woods

I'm a very anxious person, and it's hard for me to be in the moment. Improv demands that you be in the moment.

Zach Woods

If you talk in a way that is too dissimilar to the character, when people are showing up to see you talk about the show, often it seems like it's jarring to them.

Zach Woods

I don't think anyone is hiring me because I look like Chris Hemsworth.

Zach Woods

I think in movies, in television, and in advice columns, often there's this idea that what people are really attracted to is confidence. And I think people, especially young men, sometimes misinterpret that to mean being brash, or trying to be an alpha.

Zach Woods

I don't know anything about tech, but I do know something about slightly socially crippled and overly cerebral guys.

Zach Woods

When I was a kid, my father would read Neil Simon plays with me, when I was going to bed, as bedtime stories.

Zach Woods

For the first actual comedy-comedy I did, I took a comedy class in New York, which was full of slightly unhinged people. It was a pretty depressing crowd, very angry and strange people. But then I took a class at the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I loved those people.

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This is going to sound pretentious, but I like comedy that addresses something I find either worrisome or interesting in my life.

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I can be such a Little Lord Fauntleroy about what I even audition for.

Zach Woods

You can't be a professional rejector of opportunities.

Zach Woods