Jane Lynch Quotes

Stand-up, I find it really difficult. It's not really my thing.

When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.

As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

I never used to tell jokes on stage. Now I'm cutting up jokes all night long.

I do standup every week in L.A. at the Laugh Factory and the Improv.

I will always love to perform standup comedy.

The first time I ever did a play, in junior high school, I said to myself, 'Hey, people like me doing this. I'm making them laugh.'

With silly stuff, it's seventy-five percent confidence. I always tell people that it's because I'm nervous about getting that next laugh and I need to hear it. I always want to condense a joke.

Stand-up is my baby.

Stand-up is hard.

If you are doing stand-up comedy, you have to be confident in what you are doing. That doesn't mean just because you are confident you are funny.

When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.

There is never hesitation about doing stand-up. It's just me doing my thing.

I told jokes badly.

You say you're a comedian, you always have to be on guard.

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

I am not a joke-teller. Stand-up, I couldn't do.

Trying my hand at standup was exciting to me.

I'll never stop doing stand-up. There's nothing better than getting in front of 2,500 people and making an entire room laugh.

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.

At the end of the day, I'm not really trying to make a statement with any of my standup.

People often tell me that they have no idea how I can do standup. The idea of trying to make a large group of strangers laugh is, for many, absolutely petrifying - and it is - but there are ways of gradually developing the material that can ease the fear.

The very first time I did stand-up, that was terrifying.

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

I think anybody in front of a crowd is a comedian.