Eugene Levy
Eugene Levy
Eugene Levy, CMis a Canadian actor, comedian, producer, director, musician and writer. He is the only actor to have appeared in all eight of the American Pie films, with his role as Noah Levenstein. He often plays nerdy, unconventional figures, with his humour often deriving from his excessive explanations of matters and the way in which he deals with sticky situations. Levy is a regular collaborator of actor-director Christopher Guest, appearing in four of his films, commencing with Waiting for...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth17 December 1946
CountryCanada
I can't do comedy that is cutting and vicious. If I knew I'd said something that was going to make someone feel bad, well, that supersedes everything.
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.
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'm not a comedian. I don't do stand-up. I don't tell jokes. I'm a comedic actor, and approach my work that way. The comedy comes through the character.
I don't consider myself, you know, in real life one of those funny guys. My comedy comes through my work,
I love comedy. Playing the underdog, and getting the laughs is my form of entertainment. I could think of nothing different that I would want to be doing at this time in my life.
I'll tell you why you're going to do what you're going to do today is because you're my bitch.
I really enjoyed working on 'Dumb & Dumberer' with Cheri Oteri, maybe because we are both into improvisations. We were meant to act together.
I'm in Christopher Guest's new film, 'For Your Consideration,' which starts shooting in October,
In the early days, it was like Second City , or National Lampoon , that kind of created Saturday Night Live , and it seems now, for the most part, there are stand-ups who are hired and brought into the show because they have the ability to come up with the one-liner.
I like that there is no jeopardy when I work on a film with Chris, ... Castle Rock (Entertainment) just gives us around $8 million and we are left alone with no interference. I like the control of getting to do what is close to your sensibility.
I'm kind of a character actor, which lends itself more to supporting roles. Being front and center, you can't really duck down and hide behind somebody else's shoulder.
I play an agent who used to be partners in a very large talent agency. My partner died and everybody left. Evidently he was the brains of the outfit, so now my setup couldn't be smaller. I have absolutely no clout in the business but still consider myself a player.
It's improvisation, you're learning to think on your feet, you're learning to write, you're doing a different kind of character in every scene you're doing on the stage,