Nolan Gould Quotes

Improv kind of goes hand in hand with what I do. I was on 'Reno 911!' for six years, and that was a completely improvised show.

I did a 'Golden Girls' once, which shot in front of an audience, and that went well. I had a good time. But I need an audience, for comedy at least.

I started doing improv my sophomore year.

I am obsessed with improv.

It's always hard to watch bad actors improv on your skit.

I come from the world of improv; I love any show or any vehicle that gives me an opportunity to be in the moment.

I really am a theater person. That means you put something out there, and you let it go. Tomorrow night is a new performance.

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

I'm not a standup, but I play one on TV.

I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

It's a tremendous feeling walking on to a set with a live audience and making them laugh, but I love drama, and I love drama where there's the ability to bring comedy into it because in a lot of tragic circumstances in life there is comedy to be had.

Sometimes I know a joke I'm going to yell out ahead of time, but most of the time it's stream of conscious. You never really know it until you've got everyone dressed up, the set is built, all the extras are here.

I haven't done improv since I was in middle school.

Acting is ephemeral. You can't hang it on a wall. You can't throw it off. And you can't bring it out of a closet. It's there one night and it's gone the next, at least with stage acting anyhow.

When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.

Movies have takes. But plays are like life - you don't really get takes.

I did improv for about 10 years professionally, and before that, I had done it in high school as part of an improv team. It was definitely a big part of my upbringing.

It's so fun to do theater, because as opposed to television, you just keep doing it again and again and again - every night. Sometimes it lands beautifully, and sometimes it lands just beside of it. It's like throwing a horseshoe. It's great fun.

There have been, like, three auditions in my life where I feel like I'm in a 'Saturday Night Live' skit.

Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience.

In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup, you don't really want to be listening to what somebody is saying; you want to project your jokes into their face.

No matter how good you might be in a movie, you'll never be any better. But in a play, I can be better next Tuesday. That's the thrill of it.

In television, a sitcom is probably the closest thing to what it's like working in the theater.

I wanted to be on 'Saturday Night Live' since I was ten.