Gemma Ward Quotes

You gotta have the balls to go out there and be funny, man.

I remember doing a lot of comedy. I always loved that feeling when you do something on stage and you can feel the vibe of the audience turn, and they start laughing. It's how you know something's not right, and how to fix it, or how to make the moment stronger or funnier.

One of the reasons I still do stand-up is because it was so hard in the beginning that I feel like it would be such a shame not to redeem it that it's all fun.

I'm very lucky in that I've gotten to do a lot of things. But if you ever put a gun to my head and said, "You can only do one," I'd think it would be stand-up. I think it's the coolest job in the world.

I've always had my voice as a comic. I was never that into politics, or prop comedy.

When you're a young comedian the first thing you want to do is get a laugh.

I think I probably would have gone into stand-up.

I just realized at a certain point that no matter how much writing I did, I'm still a gym rat for comedy clubs.

I used to feel this need to prove to people that I can do something dramatic. But, the truth is that I don't know if I can. I don't think I have it in my skill set. It would be great, but I do love making comedies. It's been so much fun for me, and I hope that I can continue to do it.

I didn't really get into comedy until a couple months before I started doing comedy.

Stand-up in general is the most raw form of entertainment. There is no pyrotechnics or back-up dancers, it's just live and die by your jokes, that's it.

[Stand-up] might be ballsy, but I'd rather not be an actor. Actors are tools.

I guess in my house when I was growing up, I was comfortable trying to be funny. And my dad, of course, it bugged him sometimes. He was trying to rest, and I was constantly trying to say something stupid to get a reaction. But I like doing these movies. You can do it in front of the camera and then it's over. I don't have to worry about being in front of too many people.

I was always sort of a ham as a kid, just always wanting to entertain and to get people to laugh.

If I want to keep working as an actor, I'm going to become a comedian who does fart jokes.

Stand-up is a real art form in itself and one that I really think to be good at you have to devote your entire life to. It's the really, really good ones that end up getting to do the things that I like to do: movies, TV shows, and stuff like that. It's a really hard gig and it just never called to me.

I think stand-up comedy is this - it's this kind of indulgence and narcissism.

I think being successful in comedy is being funny and making jokes - anything beyond that is the icing on the cake.

The whole thing about working in front of the camera is to make people laugh when they're not supposed to.

I got into stand up just to do stand up because I love stand up.

Stand-up is mine. It's a part of me.

I love writing stand-up so much and tinkering and looking for ideas.

For me, comedians are like the epitome for everything great, and they terrify me. I just want to be them. I want to be like them.

Other than friends and family, my favorite things are New York and stand-up. I love doing comedy in New York - I can do way more stand-up here than in Los Angeles.

I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.