Quotes About Comedy

'Once More' is a comedy for sure, but it also makes us introspect.

I'd love to do a romantic comedy. And perhaps, if the character was right and I had a good gut instinct, a Bollywood movie. And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of 'The Good Wife.'

It's on the bucket list for sure to do a comedy film, even if it was just one line on the lot.

One of the things I like about comedy in general is that it affords Asian Americans the opportunity to not be noble.

That's what's so great, I get to play any character in the world. And I think that's one of the things that makes doing 'Comedy Bang Bang' or other improv podcasts so fun, as well as my own, is that you can really explore a character deeply for a long period of time that is nothing like yourself.

I'll tell you one thing, since I'm married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.

At one time I wanted to be a comedian.

I was playing an Ikea employee one time and a guy asked me about an armoire, so I ran through the store and he and his lady started running after me, and we end up inside an armoire - literally. It was a lot of fun, but in the end the guy says, 'I can't be on your show. I'm married, and this isn't my wife.'

I'm not too keen on jokes that are one-liners. I want the situation to be funny.

I don't do one-liners, because you don't learn anything about that comedian.

Twitter is comedy writing. It's one-liners that give way to fully fleshed-out thoughts.

I experimented with my own one-man show a couple of years ago in Aspen when HBO used to have their comedy festival there. I called it 'A History of Me.'

'Obvious Child,' the short, had a nice life online and a great festival run, but the short and the feature still stand apart from everything else I've done. I play a woman who you might meet in life. My other work is much more heightened.

My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend.

The only difference between a comedian and someone else? We need to make people laugh more.

The only time I don't get nervous is if I'm doing a home club in L.A. and I know all of my friends there because then I play to my friends. When I first started doing comedy, I hated it when my friends came; it made me more nervous. Now I just try to make them laugh.

I just looked preposterous. It would be 'King Lear' and I'd walk on with Cordelia's dead body in my arms and the audience would hoot with laughter. The only time they didn't laugh was when I was doing comedy.

You don't need to exorcise your personal demons onstage.

There's a difference between an actual insult and a friendly jab. So I don't think I'm offensive onstage.

I think sometimes comedians and entertainers and artists, sometimes they get onstage, and it's all for what they want to do. I think you still need to do stuff for the audience. They're the ones who are making it possible.

So much about getting onstage is creating a connection with an audience that allows you to go different places and try different things.

When I'm onstage, I'm acting.

I don't really move onstage; all I do is just gradually hunch more and more and jut out at the people in the front row.

I had a moment where I was onstage once... As a comedian, you just think, 'Be funny as possible all the time - like, funny at all costs - jokes, jokes, jokes.' That's how my mentality was.