Gayle Forman Quotes

I heard David Sedaris read live recently which was a complete delight. Few writers make me laugh out loud on the bus. He does.

In fifth grade, we had to write a story and read it in front of the class. When I read mine out, the class were just belly laughing. And I remember being like, 'This is the coolest!' So I want to dedicate my life to trying to make people laugh. I can't imagine doing anything else.

Even when I lecture per se, I am a joke comedian, I can do the voices.

What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.

I want to get up there and tell entertaining stories but that are also to a certain extent clean.

I started doing standup when I was in college, and I would incorporate a lot of characters into my act.

It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.

I really love standup because it's something that I've been literally doing for 40 years, which means I'm a thousand years old.

At the end of the day, whether it's on film or on stage or for a crowd of however many at Kenwood House, my job is to make sure people have a good time and come away with a feeling and a story.

Sometimes I start off shows by explaining to people that it's just a bunch of stories - I always say 'It's like standup, just less funny.'

I've been entertaining men with my comedy for many, many years, and I don't plan on stopping.

I've done comedy on stage, in fact it is one of my strong points.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

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

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it's what I live for.

When I got on Stern I realized that this was the one job where you could be really honest and open, almost like Richard Pryor or something. You can be honest about your life and get laughs.

I still do standup.

I am not interested in entertaining people. I think being an actor provides an opportunity to give people an experience they can connect to, reflect on, learn from, laugh at.

Having worked as both comedian and crime writer, the one thing I know is that both involve the delivery of a performance.

I think if people stick with 'The Leftovers,' it's a very rewarding viewing experience. I wanted to be part of that - and what a great cast we got. I wanted to be one of those actors, in that show!

I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.

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

It's the hardest thing to come up with an hour of material that can consistently keep people laughing.