Loni Love Quotes

I'd say I'm the opposite of someone that has the urge to stand in front of strangers and make them laugh, but the idea of getting up and telling a story and people finding it amusing always appealed to me.

There is never hesitation about doing stand-up. It's just me doing my thing.

Doing comedy is very challenging, as I am a shy person in real life.

People often tell me that they have no idea how I can do standup. The idea of trying to make a large group of strangers laugh is, for many, absolutely petrifying - and it is - but there are ways of gradually developing the material that can ease the fear.

There's something about us as stand-ups that when we're on our feet, we feel more in control of the situation and in control of our bodies and our delivery.

I think, in a way, the stand-up prepped me for the improv, because I do a lot of riffing in my stand-up.

I definitely enjoyed being in front of an audience, making people laugh, and telling stories, so when I realized I could do all three at the same time, that was it.

Stand-up, I find it really difficult. It's not really my thing.

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

You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well. It was probably years before I was confident enough in stand-up that I was able to talk about the things I wanted to talk about, the way I wanted to talk about them.

I never used to tell jokes on stage. Now I'm cutting up jokes all night long.

Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy, and then toiled in obscurity for years.

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

The more you perform and get out there, I guess the more practice you have at it and the better you are and the more comfortable you are on stage.

Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.

There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it.

A lot of the time, you're supposed to play to the top of your intelligence, as truthful as possible. But when you're on stage making people laugh, you're still acting. I think it helped me a bunch to go on stage two or three times a week.

I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.

I had no desire to get up onstage and tell jokes. I prefer to stand next to really funny people.

Ever since I was a kid, I loved being up in front of people. I loved making people laugh; I never had any stage fright.

I'm not a natural comic, I don't think. That's why I gave up stand-up. It was hard. It involved a lot of death. Dying. Dying on stage. But it's one of those jobs you can only learn by doing it.

I started standup at age nineteen. I decided that the only way I was going to try show business as a career was if I could make total strangers laugh.

The moment for me, thinking I might actually want to do comedy professionally, was when I did public speaking at school. I found out I was good at getting up in front of class. In the fifth grade, I did a speech on comedy.

Sometimes I start off shows by explaining to people that it's just a bunch of stories - I always say 'It's like standup, just less funny.'

I've been entertaining men with my comedy for many, many years, and I don't plan on stopping.