Ashley Greene Quotes

I thought that I was going to be a stand-up comedian or an actress. Turns out, I can't act my way out of a paper bag and stand-up comedy is a lot harder than it appears.

A lot of the time, you're supposed to play to the top of your intelligence, as truthful as possible. But when you're on stage making people laugh, you're still acting. I think it helped me a bunch to go on stage two or three times a week.

Comedy is what I really want to do and propel.

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

My drama instructor suggested I try comedy. I was resistant at first because I considered myself a serious actor, but of course I fell in love with it.

I thought of Second City as just the greatest therapeutic job anybody could ever dream of having.

I am genuinely interested in comedy and I know that I have good comic timing as well.

I need to keep my ad-libbing skills honed and make sure I'm able to banter with people and treat topics a bit more light-heartedly. But as a stand-up, first and foremost, my job is to make sure that I can write the routine that hopefully people will talk about when something big happens.

I've been performing stand-up comedy for ten years, it's what I love and will always do.

I used to do comedy during my theatre days, and I was good at that.

I have always wanted to do comedy.

I like comedy. I would love to do comedy for a long time.

When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.

Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard.

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.

Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting.

I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.

Stand-up, for me, is really more of an addiction, so you have to feed the beast whenever you can.

I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.

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

I never thought I'd end up doing comedy, but actually, it's been something I've really relished the challenge of and ended up doing quite a bit of.

Well, I think my stand-up is often kind of visual. Not like Carrot Top visual, but visual.

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.

I do more comedy, actually. I don't do the classic novelas.