David Nicholls Quotes

When I was about 12, I spent the summer writing four plays on my dad's old typewriter for a school play competition. And I wrote little comic bits at secondary school and at university.

I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing.

I'm more interested in writing than in performing.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction, and especially novels, but I'm a writer... I write poetry and essays and criticism and I'd love to write a whole play, and sometimes I even write scripts.

I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.

People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do.

It's always been a dream of mine to write comedy and be creative.

I don't have any writers. I never get a laugh with somebody else's jokes. I can't do it justice.

I love writing stand-up so much and tinkering and looking for ideas.

I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.

I graduated from Second City Los Angeles. It helped me tremendously, not only in my roles in films but in helping shape me into a writer as well. In improv, you will fail sometimes, so it teaches you to be brave and try anything. The worst that can happen is nobody laughs.

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

Stand-up is the only thing in which you actually write it, act it and direct it simultaneously, so it's actually a great theater exercise.

Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry, and then people thought I was funny, so I ran with it.

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

I started writing because it was hard to find acting jobs. I didn't like any monologues in auditions, so I started to write my own things. Since then, I have written a couple of shows. I was nominated for playwright of the year for a play I wrote called 'Potential Space.'

If I'm not clear with the character, I can't do anything with it. But once I get that character, the possibilities are endless. When you have such a defined character, I feel like I can actually read the phone book and make it funny.

In my mind, I was always a comedian who was going to branch into writing.

I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I'm a writer... I write.

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

I can't write a joke. I could never write. I do a lot of stories and I call them stories, but they're just comedy recitals on a given subject.

I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.

I'm good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue.