Amy Hoggart Quotes

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.

The only way to stay sharp is to do live shows. There is no part-time comedy.

I love comedies. I love watching them. I think I've always been afraid of being on them a little bit.

Stand-up is live, so I'm used to being live for most of my career. It's interesting.

I don't really like doing big stand-up. Whenever I do theaters, I don't like 'em. I don't think they're right for stand-up. I've seen people in theaters, and it just doesn't work, because you're talking to the guy next to you the whole time.

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

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

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

But I love stand-up, and it's where I came from creatively, so it's something I never want to walk away from.

I'm not a stand up at all, it's such a fear of mine. My sister does it, and she's really great at it.

I love to go on tour and perform. I love all the parts of the process.

In Manhattan, I often do two or three or more shows a night, so I'm always working on new material.

I never wanted to be road comic.

I'm a live performer and I love playing live.

When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.

Stand-up is kind of like my home base, and doing stand-up in New York is what I like doing most.

I left school and couldn't find acting work, so I started going to clubs where you could do stand-up. I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience.

Stand-up. It's the only place I'm comfortable.

If I'm not in the theatre, I'm in an open mic night or doing a guest set at the Comedy Club, or whatever, just trying to develop stuff.

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

As a stand-up comic, you have to do the road.

I'm not the kind of comic who would try stuff on Twitter, because I have to work up ideas and I can only do that in front of people.

Stand-up comedy is something that you have to strive to do, multiple times a night, every night, to be good.

I don't write anything. It's all done onstage, which is why I always tell younger comics that they just have to go do it. You have to get up, talk, and take a thought or a word and just expound, and you find it in there. I don't sit down and write.

Stand-up is an amazing art form, I think, because it's all about you having complete control of the situation, but absolutely none.