Emmylou Harris Quotes

I am excited about getting back to what I do best and what my audience likes best, I am writing new jokes every day and soon Ill be telling them every night. Just me, one Jew talking and that's it.

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

Richard Lewis is the master at taking a joke that he's told a million times in a row in the past year, on the road, and making it look like he's pulling it out of thin air.

You can't get tied into your past. It's not fun for me. You can't just keep doing the same material forever. Some people just play the hits, and it's the same show every night. They're happy to do that. I personally am not.

When you do see me, you'll get the idea from when you see me that it's all off the top of my head. A lot of it is a beginning, middle and the end. But it's different every night. I have a lot of jokes in my back pocket I've said over the years.

There are jokes I know I want to tell, and there's sort of a rough order, but usually I try to change it up every show, to improvise and talk with the audience. I think when you tell jokes, if you're not careful, you can end up telling the whole list of jokes and then that's it. And that can get a little boring.

By the way, to perform in front of Don Rickles, it 's not nerve-wrecking. It 's enjoyable, i am enjoying Jeff Garlin. I hope I perform in front of Don Rickles every night of my life !

When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other.

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.

If you're a comedian, you are looking for material in daily life.

I don't want to play the same character seven times. I think people would probably get bored of it.

The best part about being a stand-up is the connection with the audience. There's nothing more gratifying then when you can make 300 people applaud and stand up - because that's all you.

Sometimes you get bored of the same moves, but you know that there are those moves that those fans love.

I would love to do more TV and do movies for the experience, but my ultimate focus is stand-up. It's the number one thing that I love most because there is nothing like being with a live audience.

I never want to bore the public.

Stand-up is still my job. That is the thing I wanted to get into when I was 21. You cannot beat the immediacy of it, making people laugh without any interruptions or edits.

I'm all for trying anything once; otherwise, you end up like David Guetta - reproducing the same formula over and over.

Most stand-up is incredibly boring. It's time for people to do something else.

Playing live is great, but it's not a creative thing, really. It's a reproductive thing.

If I don't try and bring variety in my appearances, I will get bored with films, so I can well imagine how bored the audience would get watching me.

If you've paid your hard-earned money to see a gig, you want to be entertained. That's what I wanna give my fans.

Everything that you do in this entertainment business, you build a fan base.

I think the best thing about performing as producer is to hear the fans sing along with your tunes.

I love performing, and connecting with an audience never gets old for me, but it does get old for me when my audience is just only interested in something they've already heard.

We never do the same set twice.