Sean Lock Quotes

I needed to be more self-determining, and the most self-determining thing you can do in comedy is stand-up.

Stand-up is my favorite thing I've ever done. There's so much independence.

The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period.

Onstage I'm the one in control - I'm not at the mercy of how an editor chooses to put the scene together later. I can do things onstage that I would never do in real life. It's very freeing.

Doing comedy was liberating in a way.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

There's a lot of creative freedom. Acting is a whole boatload of fun, but I prefer to do it on my own terms.

I love stand up and it keeps me grounded, to say the stuff I have been thinking without anyone changing it.

It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band.

I can tell jokes. I can talk to the audience. I can relax. I can change my songs whenever I want. I can change the tempos. I can change the mood, because I'm in charge.

Stand-up is the only thing I have complete control over. There's something to be said for that.

The thing I've always liked about performing is that I decide what I want to wear, whether I want to comb my hair.

Stand-up comedy is all you. It's your show, it's your game. You control every aspect of it - of that experience and that expression. There's really nothing quite as satisfying.

My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.

With 'Friday Night Lights,' we were encouraged to make it our own and improvise as much as we wanted.

Freedom is the basic prerequisite for writing.

The way I play, I like to be free.

I can be a little messy and wild and carefree with my creativity as a solo artist. In a group, there's a certain structure, and everyone has a part to play, and being a solo artist, I can do as I please.

If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.

I am a lot happier, focusing on the production side of things than wanting to be in front of the camera. If I am going to dance to someone else's tune, it might as well be my own.

Stand-up is no bureaucracy. No one can tell me what to do or not to do.

We got full artistic integrity and autonomy over what we were doing, and that was the main important thing that kept our band alive.

When you do stand-up, it's so autonomous: I can say anything.

I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing.

Any director or writer or artist has the right to do what they want to do - freedom of expression is something I celebrate.