Raashi Khanna Quotes

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.

Stand-up is my favorite thing I've ever done. There's so much independence.

I love to work. I love doing standup.

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

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

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

I'd say I'm the opposite of someone that has the urge to stand in front of strangers and make them laugh, but the idea of getting up and telling a story and people finding it amusing always appealed to me.

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

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.

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.

I still love to walk on stage and make people laugh, and I work very, very hard at it, and I take it seriously.

People often tell me that they have no idea how I can do standup. The idea of trying to make a large group of strangers laugh is, for many, absolutely petrifying - and it is - but there are ways of gradually developing the material that can ease the fear.

I think, in a way, the stand-up prepped me for the improv, because I do a lot of riffing in my stand-up.

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.

I want to know that I'm gonna knock 'em dead every night.

Just to talk in front of people is scary. And now you gotta learn how to be funny, and now you gotta learn how to make people laugh at what you think is funny. That's not easy.

Stand-up, I find it really difficult. It's not really my thing.

In my stand-up, I generally improvise from an outline.

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'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy.

I think the more you do this and the more comfortable you become on stage, you start speaking more and becoming more of a character in yourself.

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

Here's the thing, with comedy - and I learned this from Will Ferrell - you can't be ashamed. If you're doing comedy, you have to fully commit to the joke. Shame is not part of it. If you act shy or uncomfortable about your body, that makes the audience shy and uncomfortable. And in a comedy you just want them to loosen up and laugh.

To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.

There's something about being a comedian that means you have to not be scared of failing because failing is part of the process.