Bill Hader Quotes

I think comedy I've learned is really just about relaxing and trusting yourself and allowing yourself to fail.

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

You don't need to be stable to be a stand-up comedian.

Comedy requires a lot of energy.

A lot of people think that comedy is sort of a cop out to not wrestling seriously, but I actually would argue that comedy is much more difficult than wrestling seriously because you have to be creative in almost everything that you do if you want the comedy to make sense within the realms of pro wrestling.

There's not one thing that inspires me the most. Me and my friends joke around with each other and hang out so much that whatever makes us laugh really hard makes it into 'Workaholics.' But the characters that I think are funny are guys that are confidently stupid.

I was fooling everyone by surrounding myself with funny people. But then I put myself out there - writing my own sketches, going on stage with nobody surrounding me - and for some reason people were still laughing.

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

I never used to tell jokes on stage. Now I'm cutting up jokes all night long.

Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy, and then toiled in obscurity for years.

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

When you're doing stand-up, you can comment if something fails, get a laugh from that.

I've never really told jokes. I'm not good at it.

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

Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.

I'm going to be Dog, and I'm going to be an entertainer. And I'm going to make mistakes.

I told jokes badly.

I'm really bad at writing jokes.

I can never tell a joke, I've always found it easier to just fall over.

It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're writers who perform their own material. It's more interesting. And they're sexy because they risk more. Stand-up comedians risk more than anyone.

In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.

I guess I was the class clown - with a name like Albert Einstein, you don't hide in the back. I'd read the school bulletin to the class, and I'd add activities and make stuff up. It was good, a good 10 minutes every morning.

The only thing I know how to do is be funny - that's it.

I started by doing a little funny story, and then I started going to open mics. I realized I had a lot of work to do - you have to get over the stage fright and get your stage presence up. It took me some time, but I finally feel that I'm at a point where I feel comfortable on stage and giving my point of view.

The real challenge lies in maintaining dignity while being funny. I am in awe of Krushna Abhishek's energy and Bharti Singh's wit. They are infectious and selfless.