Sarah Cooper Quotes

I'm not a comedy writer, I'm a comedian, so I only write stuff that I would want to say.

I prefer being known for my stand-up because I write it. I love being an actor, and saying other people's words is great. But then, when I do stand-up, I love getting my own point of view out there.

Stand-up is cool. In stand-up, you get to learn about yourself if you do it from a thoughtful place.

There's a fallacy with stand up comedy, which is, people come up to comedians, and they go, 'You say what I think but I'm not brave enough to say,' and that's not particularly true.

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

I'm not saying that I am all of my characters, but for me to bring a character to life, you've got to be able to find your own truth.

I like to do talk show appearances where I get to just be myself, and I do stand-up where I can completely be myself. That's what I've always loved the most, of anything.

Trying to give an individual a voice has always kind of been my mission in my life. As an actor, I've always seen that was something that needed to be done. You need to find that voice inside of you so that you can stand up and be who you really are.

I think if you want to get to know me, you should come and see a show. A person might get to see more sides of me.

Once I started doing stand-up, everything fell into place. That was when I started acting more; I felt like I'd found my place in the business.

With Twitter, you just want to make people laugh in their meeting; on stage, people have paid for their tickets with their hard-earned money, so I owe them the truth as I experience it.

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 always thought that the fastest way for me to get ahead and get noticed and to do well was to make my act very accessible. When I first started, I talked about family stuff, my dog, my cat. It was all I knew back then; I wasn't forcing anything, but I wasn't like, 'Hey, don't you hate doing homework?'

When I started stand-up, the people I admired most were the people who were the most themselves onstage.

There's no one on the road that I tried to pattern myself after. There's no one in history that I tried to pattern myself after. Because one thing I was told that in standup you want to develop your own voice.

Whenever a young comic asks me for advice I only have two things to say. One is to try and do what you think is genuinely funny and the other is just do loads of gigs.

You know how they say, "Find your voice"? That's your voice, in your pajamas. And it doesn't mean that you're going to publish it or print it or people are going to see you in your pajamas. It just means you are going to construct the foundation in your pajamas, in that voice.

Write what you would love to read. Finish what you begin to write. Your voice is uniquely yours and we are all waiting to hear it.

I love writing stand-up so much and tinkering and looking for ideas.

Typically, when you're with your friends, premises are coming up left and right. But when you're on stage, you must create the premise. So you have to create the premise, paint the picture and then deliver the punch line.

It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.

I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.

You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well.

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.

Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.