Noel Fielding Quotes

I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.

Some people use stand-up to get something else in their careers, but it's truly the art form of stand-up I love.

I definitely am a performer, and there are different styles of stand-up; I mean, some people are writers and they get onstage to get jokes out, and that's definitely not what I do. I like to just go up and, if I'm telling a story about someone, I'll play his or her part.

Yeah, I do stand-up, my own type of stand-up.

I got into stand-up because I love stand-up. Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punch line.

In terms of comedy, I never did five-minute sets or clubs or anything. I just started doing shows. Coming from that theater background, it never crossed my mind that I should start doing five-minute sets.

I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.

Anybody with a sharp brain and a mic can become a comedian, but there's a need to move beyond it. The audience wants to witness the marriage of theatre, comedy and something more.

Stand-up for me is just my opinions on things, so it wouldn't be as fun translated into a sketch. Nor would a sketch be as fun if it were me standing there saying it.

When I was doing standup, I always wanted to get out of the standup world and take it back into the theatrical world, like with 'No Cure For Cancer.'

I just loved stand-up comics as a kid. I'd watch them on 'The Tonight Show,' and I thought what a great craft it was to come out on stage with no instrument or anything and be able to entertain people.

A lot of people get into stand-up as a back door into acting or something. But I really like writing jokes and telling jokes.

You have comedians who just do jokes, and they're called comics, not comedians. You have comedians that do bits - a person that has a lot of jokes that have a beginning, a middle and an end, but it's not a real story. And you have someone that does great stories, the one that blends those things together - that person is doing comedy.

I really like to do comedy, and I did comedy the first 2 years after I graduated college, so I really love it and appreciate it.

I've always liked and appreciated storytellers like Garry Shandling and Bill Cosby - more long-form comedy. So starting in San Francisco, watching all these great comics - Patton Oswalt, Dave Chappelle - you get to see them a bunch, and you go, 'Wow, this is where I need to be.'

The beautiful thing about stand-up is you can create and immediately deliver, perform, and get paid for what you do.

So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.

I really admire stand-up, and I think I would have loved to learn how to do it. I think it's terrifying and thrilling. A really cool thing to do. It's a dying art, in a way.

I never thought I'd end up doing comedy, but actually, it's been something I've really relished the challenge of and ended up doing quite a bit of.

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

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

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

If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.

Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.

Stand-up is the foundation to my career. It's what I started out doing.