Ana Gasteyer Quotes

I love the theater because I love the live audience and when we went three cameras we have a live audience in the study so we had someone to play to and react to. That laughter.

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.

If you're doing stand-up, there is no fourth wall; you're engaging an audience.

I loved doing the 'King of Queens', I have never had so much fun doing a show. People got to see a different side of me.

There is absolutely no way for a sitcom to be a challenge to me.

I really enjoyed multicamera comedy. You film in front of a live audience, and it's kind of the best of both worlds. It's like doing a one-act play every week, but if you screw your lines up, you get to do it over.

Doing a half-hour TV show is a dream.

Stand-up is different from television. In stand-up, you've got to be in control.

You know, it's nice on a sitcom to have an audience there, but there's still a wall of cameras between you and them.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors.

Sitcoms are what got me excited about show business.

I never considered game show host as a career, but it's fun because I get to inject some of my comedy into it.

If people are coming to see me because they like what I do on 'Mock the Week,' that's great because they are coming to see me being me.

My big dream is to be a late-night host, but it's like, what does that even mean?

A sitcom is the closest thing for me to doing stage because you work in front of an audience, and if it's well written it can be very satisfying.

Your only guidepost is your own instinct and judicious editing. In my stand-up act I learned that in the first 10 minutes I could say anything and it would get a laugh. Then I'd better deliver. In the movie it's the same thing. You get a lot of laughs when people first sit down and then the story better kick in. Many years in front of an audience, I would hope, give me a sense of what works.

I liked doing live things, and with the Circus we had a live audience.

I grew up on M*A*S*H and All In The Family and Cheers. And then around this time, this would have been '95, '96, I was so into Friends and Mad About You, the idea of being on a sitcom became a very real thing that I wanted. It was not so much a relief. It was really exciting. It's an amazing thing to be in front of an audience.

We will try to honor David Letterman achievement by doing the best show we can.And occasionally making the network very mad at us.

I love doing sitcoms and I love performing in front of a live audience, so [Payne] was a really fun experience.

I have fun doing movies, I’ve had fun doing the animated show, and I certainly have fun doing standup. Even that, even though it’s just me talking, it’s also interaction with the crowd.

I'm glad that I'm able to entertain and be a part of people watching shows and enjoying the work.

Being performers, that's what we do: We put on shows and want people to watch.

Many more people saw me on TV than will ever get to see me on stage, but I do love being in the same room as the people I'm telling the story to.