Alan Thicke Quotes

I'd been doing standup since college.

I still do standup.

I don't have a specific plan except for as long as people want to listen to me talk, I'm going to keep talking. I can't imagine a life without doing standup.

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 know I'm going to be doing standup for the rest of my life.

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'm really good at standup. I always win at standup.

I've been doing stand-up since '89.

I started stand-up in 2007. I'd done a couple of gigs before that, but not much, and I was in a sketch group at Uni from 2005 as well.

Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.

The really good stand up comedians can be angry but relatable, and they have interestingly humanizing personalities. Their observational skills are far greater than mine, so I'll just stick to reading lines off a page.

Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days.

I used to do skits for my mom... and I was always entertaining as a kid.

It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.

The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience.

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

I love standing at a microphone and making a room of people laugh. That's the part of the work I love; everything else is extraneous.

I need to keep my ad-libbing skills honed and make sure I'm able to banter with people and treat topics a bit more light-heartedly. But as a stand-up, first and foremost, my job is to make sure that I can write the routine that hopefully people will talk about when something big happens.

If you want to do standup, you have to go on stage. That's the only way to get good - stage times.

When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism... What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people laugh. I was a few years out of college before I felt I had enough material. Then in 1988 I moved to L.A. and started to do some shows at comedy clubs.

Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it's my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers.

I spent 25 years as a stand-up comedian.

You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well.

My stand-up has a lot of performance in it, and I loved doing it so much that, after years, I put the idea of having a show on the back burner.

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