Quotes About Stage

I enjoy it immensely, but I'm not comfortable on stage as a person.

I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.

I feel like I came to acting late in a way. I was about 26 or 27, and it was imperative that I make a living right away, and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.

Stage is about imperfections and working with them, whether it be from you or the audience.

On the stage you can get away with imposing the emotions on yourself, but with film it really has to come from inside. It's much more intense.

Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions.

I've never done stand-up in my life. I don't know if that's entirely interesting, but I came up in improv.

I'm not an improv guy.

I was never that good on stage with live improv. I was much better on film or writing something and then thinking about it. I was too in my head when I was on stage.

River City Improv set the stage for my career.

I took an improv class in 2005 in Chicago at ComedySportz, which was short-form, more of a games-based improv. I remember it being real fun and helping with my stand-up. If I did an improv class, and then I did stand-up later, I felt looser on stage and more comfortable.

I have the improv background, but stand-up is different.

That was a huge part of my training, doing improv in Chicago.

If you're at the Comedy Store or the Laugh Factory or the Improv, even two minutes helps. You never know who might be in the audience.

I started doing improv comedy in 2007, and I think it was that that gave me the confidence to try doing stand-up!

We're improv comedians, we're not necessarily actors, we don't come across that way.

I'm really good at improvising on stage, so if I'd forget a step, I'll just make up something. And the rest of the dancers would be like... what is she doing!? It always looked like they have forgotten the step, so I got away with it!

The first show I did was 'The Nutcracker' ballet. I was one of the kids who comes out in the beginning.

I wanted to be on stage. That was kind of my plan as an actress in the beginning.

In the past, if you did film, you couldn't do stage, and if you did film, you certainly didn't do television. You had to pick what you wanted to be. Now it seems like we can bounce around, not only between genres, but between mediums, and I like that. I like change and I like a good story.

I am inclined to acting. I like to act and I like being an actor.

I started at the Incognito Theatre as an amateur.

The years in Boston were the best of my career, and they mean more to me than anything. Winning on that stage was incomparable to anything else. That's the way I choose to look at it.

No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.