Emma Caulfield Quotes

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

Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.

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

Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.

Comedy is not something that a person can fake or learn how to do.

Comedy is very difficult. I love it because when you do it right, it's the best feeling in the world.

Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.

If you want to be a comedian, go out. Do a week in Des Moines, Iowa. Try to make those people laugh.

I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.

There's an art to comedy.

To do comedy, you have to be a pretty good actor to start with.

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

Comedy is not easy to do - where you make someone laugh out loud in their living room.

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

I have the improv background, but stand-up is different.

Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard.

In comedy, my strengths are improvisation.

There's nothing more difficult to do than comedy.

My whole life, I've been telling jokes.

It's true; I have a skill and it's... it has not related to acting, it's not related to auditions, it's not related to studios, not related to public whim. It's whether I'm funny or not and whether I can entertain people.

I've been a stand-up comedian for years, and I can be silly.

Actually, I think I'm funnier off-camera.

You can't teach someone to be funny, but you can teach comic timing. If you listen to a good comic, you can learn how to put it on a page.

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.

A lot of people who do drama say comedy is the hardest thing, but, not wanting to sound like a bighead, comedy is easy for me, as I've always been fairly funny.