Tatiana Maslany Quotes

Stand-up is the scariest thing - whether it's TV, movies, improv - stand-up is the worst.

You do some things and you just hope people will laugh.

When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.

Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard.

There's nothing more difficult to do than comedy.

It's fun to do something funny and have the director laughing. It makes you feel good.

It's good to be funny when you are a comedian.

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

Well, I think my stand-up is often kind of visual. Not like Carrot Top visual, but visual.

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.

The greatest comedian I've ever seen is Jack Benny. He wasn't afraid of the silences.

I know the nature of comedy, and you never know what will happen with the next movie or whether people will find it funny.

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love the most.

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

A lot of people who do drama say comedy is the hardest thing, but, not wanting to sound like a bighead, comedy is easy for me, as I've always been fairly funny.

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

Stand-up comedy is the most relaxing thing I do. If I want to unwind and de-stress, I go out and do stand-up, often several shows in a night.

Stand-up is hard.

It's so interesting to watch Ben Stiller work because he just knows what's funny.

The thing I thought about doing it was it's Comic Relief and you've got to be funny. So although I did try to sing properly it obviously has hilarious results when you can't sing.

I think everyone's different but in comedy, I try to do my scene to make the director and the other actors laugh. If I can make them laugh and we have the same sensibility, then I'm on the right page.

I used to put on sketch shows at boarding school when I was eight. I'm not sure about the material, but it did used to get a laugh.

Comedy is very difficult. I love it because when you do it right, it's the best feeling in the world.