Rachel Brosnahan Quotes

I don't really do stand-up.

You say a line and you wait for them to laugh, then you say another line and you wait... It felt weird to me. But it's interesting and the energy is almost like theatre, I suppose, with all the people there.

I've been doing stand-up since '89.

Doing stand-up takes the fun out of being funny.

I don't have any type of sketch-comedy or stand-up background.

I had some friends that tried it down there, and I went to a couple of open mics, and I just kind of got this... this sick urge to try it instead of just watching it.

Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.

I started comedy in 2006. I didn't even think it was a thing I could do.

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

I started doing stand up when I was 19. Because I was underage at the time, at certain clubs I would be forced to wait outside until it was my time to go on stage. Then I would do my set, walk off, and be kicked out again.

I'm probably more of a stand-up comedian than an actor.

I could never do stand-up because it's that thing of having to get up on stage. And out of every 10 jokes you tell, nine of them have to get a really good response.

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

When I do stand-up, I'm basically doing a one-man show.

I don't think of myself as funny - I don't fill up a room with my humor... I would fail miserably as a stand-up comedian.

I never wanted to be road comic.

I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people primarily knew me as 'the kid stand-up.'

I did standup comedy. I opened once for Jay Leno.

I feel that I'm a stand-up comedian more than anything else, that's my job.

I took a stand-up comedy class because I'd always wanted to.

The beautiful thing about stand-up advice is that it applies to anybody, any gender, any race, any age. The best thing you can do - everybody will tell you - is get on stage as much as you can. I would add to that: get on stage as much as you can - with the people you admire.

Someone who didn't do comedy might think it was awful to have someone talking about you. But I just love the attention, even if I'm not there.

I've been doing comedy for 20 years now. I started when I was 13 and I think for the first 10 years I was impersonating other people.

If I was reading a book about a comedian, I wouldn't really care too much about their childhood.

To this day, to this very day, except for television, I've never had a writer. Anything I've ever done on the stage, happened on the stage and I developed it from there. It started doing impressions and jokes - which I did very poorly. To this day I can't tell a joke. That sounds nuts, but it's true. I exaggerate it and it becomes a joke. Everything I've ever done I've done out on the stage and it became a performance over many many years.