Tracy Morgan Quotes

I love writing stand-up so much and tinkering and looking for ideas.

Comedy is what I really want to do and propel.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised in awhile.

The best sketch shows are from a group of tight-knit people who've worked together for a really long time.

In my mind, I was always a comedian who was going to branch into writing.

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

Comedy is my passion. I'm going to do this until I drop.

I'm definitely a writer. I don't even know how to freestyle.

When you're writing, you're putting thought into what you want to express, and then you come up with it - it comes to you. When you're improvising, it's the same thing. You're writing. You just say it out loud right then, instead of saying, 'You think this might work?'

I love Tim Minchin, Bill Bailey, and Hans Teeuwen, and I'm trying to synthesise elements of theatre into my show a little bit more.

I stopped doing standup because it stopped being fun. And the reason it stopped being fun was it was harder to write - and this was before the Internet - it was harder to write new stuff. It had gotten so crazy.

I'm very driven by writing. Coming from 'Saturday Night Live,' because it's such a writing job, and we all write our parts on the show and create characters, I'm so respectful of good writing.

That's what comedy is like: You have to force yourself out in the world because you're always one experience away from new material.

One of the most positive takeaways I've had from 'SNL' is when we'd make videos back in the day: we'd just write material as we were inspired, and so, in a given year, we'd only put out two or three videos.

I have notebooks all over the place. I write little stories for my cabaret.

Possibly the only genre that efficiently converted from TV to YouTube / Vine is sketch comedy, which has always had more to do with the skills of its creators than its budgets.

I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing.

I always loved comedy but I didn't start formally until I was in college.

I really like doing puppetry; I'm not sure if it will find its way into 'Big Bang,' but it always does seem to find its way into a lot of things.

Comedy is like math - you can check your answer because you know you've gotten it right if you get a laugh. It just makes sense to me. I feel like because I've had to keep that tool in my box for so long, I'm ready to show it off a bit.

I graduated from Second City Los Angeles. It helped me tremendously, not only in my roles in films but in helping shape me into a writer as well. In improv, you will fail sometimes, so it teaches you to be brave and try anything. The worst that can happen is nobody laughs.

I did sketch comedy for years. I've always enjoyed it.