Michael Che Quotes

I'm always happy and most at home on the stage. I love film and television, but I love live performance... your immediacy with the audience, it makes all the difference in the world.

I love the theater. I love being on stage; I love the live audience. I also love dressing up and all of the make-believe.

I prefer being known for my stand-up because I write it. I love being an actor, and saying other people's words is great. But then, when I do stand-up, I love getting my own point of view out there.

Acting was merely a pastime; I wanted to make films. But theatre, ah - now that was a labour of love. Can there be anything better than performing without retakes and cuts, in front of people you can see, hearing them breathe in the darkness of the hall?

I continue to do standup because there's a connection with a live audience - there are skills that you do learn as a standup comedian that help you on a set.

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

I love performing on stage the most. It's getting that instant reaction from a live audience. There are no boundaries, you can take your character as far as you want to, you can be the craziest person ever.

I was born to do sitcoms, where you get an immediate response from the audience.

I love theatre because it's just me and the audience. It's the litmus test in acting, to be able to sustain a performance over one, two or three hours.

Stand-up, for me, is really more of an addiction, so you have to feed the beast whenever you can.

I'm like the master of ceremonies being funny, and then sometimes people you're with, girlfriends and stuff, are like, 'God I wish I had the person on stage to be with all the time.'

Being on film is forever. Television, as well, just lives on and on and on, which is really exciting. But then with theater, it's like an experience. You have to be there that one special night that was like that to see that one performance that was really remarkable. It's more intimate as well. So I like them both.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it's what I live for.

I do my best creating on stage.

But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up.

You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.

Regardless of what I do, whether I write a book or whether I act or whether I host, I'll always do stand-up comedy because those moments, that's what I crave. If I do something funny, and I hear a crowd laugh in that moment, we're all sharing the exact same experience and the exact same feeling.

I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

I love performing.

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 would love to do more on the stage; having actual contact with the audience is great. You can give them a good seeing to!

I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.

I'm a live performer and I love playing live.

Comedy is something that I'm definitely looking to get into. I had a little taste of it and I do intend on going to classes for it because I think it's a different muscle, and it's hard to find female comedians.