Paul Feig Quotes

I'm more of a sketch guy than a standup.

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

I come from a much freer kind of performance thing, where I rely on my own improv and my own sense of humor.

A good comedian has to be a fine actor all around.

I love doing standup, but I love watching it more. Watching people like Michelle Buteau or Baron Vaughn get up and do their thing - that is what comedy can be like.

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

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

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

When I was younger I always thought, 'If I were ever a comedian I'd make it like a rock concert.' I wanted to generate that type of enthusiasm and excitement.

I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.

From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.

You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.

I feel lucky that I can have people laugh solidly for a whole hour by just saying what I think and getting paid for it.

I enjoy stand up so much because I take time off, and then I'll be excited to go back to it.

Comedy requires a lot of energy.

I still love to walk on stage and make people laugh, and I work very, very hard at it, and I take it seriously.

I started by doing a little funny story, and then I started going to open mics. I realized I had a lot of work to do - you have to get over the stage fright and get your stage presence up. It took me some time, but I finally feel that I'm at a point where I feel comfortable on stage and giving my point of view.

If I want to be a real comedian, I can't let you dictate my material, so I started creating more new material.

That's what comedy is like: You have to force yourself out in the world because you're always one experience away from new material.

A lot of people think that comedy is sort of a cop out to not wrestling seriously, but I actually would argue that comedy is much more difficult than wrestling seriously because you have to be creative in almost everything that you do if you want the comedy to make sense within the realms of pro wrestling.

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 always been an actor, even when I was doing improv and my own version of 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.

In my stand-up, I generally improvise from an outline.