Quotes About Performance

I can't imagine a time I don't want to do standup.

There's something so naked about being on stage as a musician. I think about that even with standup comedy or something - like, 'This is it, this is what I got.'

I just like doing standup, that's all I'm interested in or good at.

I'm a standup comedian, so I need people.

You can play a gig as a band and not know that they hated you; with standup, after every line, you know.

Getting on stage doing standup anytime is hard. You never know what you're going to say. You live and die on your next word.

The role of a comedian is to go in and make something funny. That might be a situation where I'm writing, a situation where I'm in control, like standup or something of my own that I'm making, or it might be something like being an actor in someone else's project.

When I go into schools to speak, I am not giving a speech - it's really a one-man show. I call it 'didactic standup.'

I still do standup.

I did standup comedy. I opened once for Jay Leno.

I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn't include someone the size of the Hindenburg.

I'm really good at standup. I always win at standup.

I wanted to do comedy, but I didn't grow up wanting to be a standup.

I thought I could see how standup worked. I never thought of being an actor - or anything else, really - but I thought, 'I can see how you get on stage and tell jokes.'

The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.

Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.

I graduated from Improv Olympic. I used to do standup comedy.

I bombed so much as a standup that messing up doesn't matter to me anymore. I kind of enjoy bombing sometimes - I try and make everybody hate me more. Like, once I know it's not going well, I can just have fun.

I don't like to post fresh standup material, because I want to use it in a special. The stuff I like to post online I like to be off-the-cuff moments.

The most dangerous place I've ever performed standup is in my home state of California.

America is where standup comedy was born. It's the standard. So you want to go and do your job where this is the mecca of what you do.

A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.

I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get really nervous. It's a great buzz when it goes well.

I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.