Daily Inspiration Quote by David Naughton

There is something quietly revealing in how David Naughton phrases this: not "I want to do comedies", but "Comedies are something I'd be very interesting in doing". The grammatical wobble is the point. It reads like an actor thinking out loud in an interview, caught between desire and decorum, trying to signal ambition without sounding needy. Comedy, in the acting world, is often treated as both a badge and a risk: it can make you beloved, but it can also trap you in a lane. Naughton's line feels like a bid for permission to pivot.

The subtext is career management. Naughton is best known for work that sits close to pop-cultural imprint (American Werewolf in London, the Dr Pepper ads): roles that come with a specific kind of visibility. Saying he's "interesting in doing" comedies suggests he wants to be taken seriously as a performer with range, not just remembered as a face from a moment. It also nods to how comedy is misrecognized as "easy" until you try it. By framing it as something he'd be "interested" in, he positions comedy as craft, not escape hatch.

Context matters: for actors coming up in the late 70s and 80s, the industry sorted people fast - leading man, character actor, funny guy. Naughton's sentence, slightly tangled, is a small act of self-reinvention. The charm is that you can hear the calculation and the hope in the same breath.