Will Sasso Quotes

I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.

Comedy and music are so similar because it's all about timing.

I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing, they know all of these things that you can only learn by telling a story out loud and interacting with an audience.

You can watch someone on-stage cry and cry - but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.

My favorite moments are the moments everyone cries over. I see people in the audience crying, and I go, 'I did that, too. I don't just do the jokes. I also do the cries.' Jokes and cries, jokes and cries. That's all I'm here for, people.

An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.

Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk out on stage, and you have a minute to hook them, or they'll start booing. As a writer, it's very similar. A reader doesn't have time to say, 'I'll give him 50 pages, as it's not very good yet, but I hope it'll get better.'

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

I didn't really know how to write jokes, so I just told weird, long stories about being tall and beautiful and wealthy in New York. I'd tell them very seriously, but I kind of looked like a drag queen at the time with big wigs and crazy 12-inch platform heels.

With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.

Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

I've always seen myself as one of those 'show people.' My earliest memories are wanting and needing to entertain people, like a gypsy traveler who goes from place to place, city to city, performing for audiences and reaching people.

The only thing we are as actors are messengers. That's all we are. Correct? We are delivering the playwright's intention through the concept of the director. And I come on stage; if I feel confident in the role, then I give it away.

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.

Sometimes an actor will stumble on the joke, and I'm right on them. Back it up before the audience hears the bad version of the joke, because humor is 90% surprise. If they know what's coming, they won't laugh as hard.

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me.

I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!

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

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

A joke is a way to say, 'I'm going to do something funny now. If I don't get a laugh at the end, I'm a failure.'

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

I wanted to be a comedian.