Kriti Kharbanda Quotes

That's what comedy is like: You have to force yourself out in the world because you're always one experience away from new material.

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

Comedy is like math - you can check your answer because you know you've gotten it right if you get a laugh. It just makes sense to me. I feel like because I've had to keep that tool in my box for so long, I'm ready to show it off a bit.

I think I have always tried to connect my comedy to my art.

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

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

I was an extroverted kid and performed, like, acting and singing. Then, the older I got, I realized I enjoyed performing things that I came up with myself more and I enjoyed making people laugh more than making people cry or think.

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

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

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

I come from a much freer kind of performance thing, where I rely on my own improv and my own sense of humor.

I started doing improv comedy in 2007, and I think it was that that gave me the confidence to try doing stand-up!

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.

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.

Comedy is what I really want to do and propel.

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

I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep being lucky enough to entertain people anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium.

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 wanted to be a comedian.

To me, comedy is a great occupation because I don't really worry that much about what other people think of me.

I'm becoming more and more confident and am falling more and more in love with the whole world of comedy, and I think that's something that I really want to explore a lot more.

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'm really bad at writing jokes.

My younger sister's a comedian. She has a sketch comedy group in Chicago called Schadenfreude and I look at her with such admiration and envy because it's such an amazing thing to make someone laugh.

My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.