Varun Sharma Quotes

I stumbled on a joke idea and style that worked, the audience went with it and, from that moment on, I was hooked. It's an amazing feeling.

I was born to do sitcoms, where you get an immediate response from the audience.

Some people use stand-up to get something else in their careers, but it's truly the art form of stand-up I love.

I have fun on stage, so people think maybe they should, too.

I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.

There's nothing more fun than being out on stage and getting the vibe from the crowd. There's nothing like being on a set where you are there to make other people happy and to make them laugh. That's the best job in the world.

Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.

Stand-up keeps you alive. It is definitely the most specialized field in comedy because you need to stay sharp and well-tuned every night.

Acting is all about timing. I mean, who has better timing than the MCs?

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.

Being a dancer and a singer gave me some advantage with regards to having a stage presence. I always take my timing from the audience because they are half of my act.

Stand-up was my entree into the entertainment world. I didn't have to act out somebody else's words. I could just stand there with a microphone, and nobody would interrupt me. It's the most narcissistic thing you could probably do.

I think I probably would have gone into stand-up.

Standup led me to acting because I liked standup, and I saw people on a stage, and the closest, nearest thing to me was doing plays. It was like, that's the same thing as standup - people are on a stage; they're being seen and saying things - so, because of my love of standup, I moved towards acting.

I started performing non-professionally at birthday parties and family gatherings doing 'Saturday Night Live' impressions at four. Then I started for real at seven.

I got into standup because I wanted to be an actor, and then I ended up loving standup for the next eleven years.

I loved stand-up, but I never thought you could do it as a job.

Stand-up comedy is not a man's job. It's an alpha job: To be the only person in a room with a microphone who's allowed to talk.

When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism... What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people laugh. I was a few years out of college before I felt I had enough material. Then in 1988 I moved to L.A. and started to do some shows at comedy clubs.

Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.

I've got too much respect for stand-ups to call myself one.

I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.

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.

As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.

I find what I do for a living really funny. I mean, acting is kind of a hilarious thing for a grown man to call a job.