Tommy Cooper Quotes

I get hecklers all the time!

I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself.

Once you become a comedian, you accept that people are just going to yell stuff at you.

When people heckle me, I have the microphone. And the press has the microphone.

I knew I was going to go into the field and make fun of people to their faces. I knew what I was getting into.

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.

The roof might fall in; anything could happen.

It's a lot of random situations that combine in a certain volatile form and create a bigger-than- the-whole situation that nobody could have predicted.

My first-ever date on my first tour, the sound completely cut out. So I had to go on and just shout loudly to the audience.

I feel like every day of my life is a funny wardrobe malfunction!

God knows the times I have found myself in absurd situations.

At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be.

Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don't sit in the dark hiding. It's easy to hide and shout and waste people's time.

Strictly by the nature of 'Veep,' in any given moment, a lot can go wrong.

There's a big difference between me and other YouTubers - a lot of them have big, concrete plans. I'm still this weird chicken with my head cut off. I don't know what I want to do next and haven't known that since I started.

When you plan something, it never works.

I actually enjoy being heckled; it keeps it interesting, and I think it is a nice feeling for people once they have left the show.

The hardest thing is that I never do anything the same way twice, and when I'm on the air, I'm very unscripted, and I'm very comfortable in that role. So me being scripted is not a comfortable place for me.

I wouldn't have expected an audience of ours to burn down our equipment.

Adventure is just bad planning.

'A Little Nightmare Music' is the first show we created. It's about all the nightmares that can happen in the span of a concert. When things go wrong - when the lights go out or a cellphone rings - that's when an audience suddenly comes alive, wondering what's going to happen next. Things going wrong often leads to something good.

I came prepared to treat with a regular government and have had to do with a mob and mob leaders.

The best thing that I bring in my live show is that it's not scripted. It's more of a conversation with my audience. And that's what people like about the show - it's very real. There are mistakes and laughter.

I have the comedian's fear of bottles flying. I've never been bottled off, but I have had things thrown at me. Bag of crisps. And there's still a part of me, when I sit in an audience, that thinks people are going to start heckling the play.

Especially when I'm heckled, that's a sticky situation because I don't defuse it... I really envy guys who have a grittier onstage presence and can really go after someone. I used to teach preschool.