Eddie McClintock Quotes

I really don't work a whole lot as far as touring, but I do stand-up every night of my life, no matter where I am. It's really made the touring a lot less grueling.

Doing comedy was liberating in a way.

One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There's so many things that I can not do in life, and this is, like, the one thing that I have mastery over. It's my world. And anybody who's coming to the show, it's like they're coming because they know that this is my world.

I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.

You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well. It was probably years before I was confident enough in stand-up that I was able to talk about the things I wanted to talk about, the way I wanted to talk about them.

I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.

I love stand up and it keeps me grounded, to say the stuff I have been thinking without anyone changing it.

I've been a stand-up comedian for years, and I can be silly.

I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.

I started getting on my feet and clowning around, and they ended up putting me in a play when I was 12. And I was hooked.

I don't like going for more than a year without doing theatre. I don't mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel I'm open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening.

Ultimately, I just decided stand-up comedy is a huge commitment, and if you want to be the best, you have to give it one hundred per cent.

A comedian is sort of like a wild animal. It really just depends on where you catch them. Sometimes they want to cuddle up, and sometimes they'll snap at you. But for me, more often than not, if I'm talking to somebody who makes their living in comedy, it'll be a very thoughtful conversation driven from an emotionally honest place.

To be really great, you need to be naturally funny in order to stand out. But you can work at it, and find the best vehicle that you have to communicate what you're saying to people.

I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don't have any secrets. I don't know the reasons I've been so well received.

The days of an open mic night when I'd rock up in an old jumper are over.

The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period.

I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.

I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy's underrated, I think, by actors, you know? It's difficult to get it right and get it funny. I really enjoy doing it. I kind of wish I'd done it more. I can't complain. I've had a fair crack of the whip.

My years on 'SNL' had reconfirmed that what I do best is play for a sort of edgy comedy.

The muscles you flex in theater are muscles that you really need. I must always find a way to get back there. It's irreplaceable.

I just want to make people laugh, and I want to do that the best way possible.

I started comedy in, like, 1998.

If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.

Stand-up. It's the only place I'm comfortable.