Nick Swardson Quotes

You gotta have the balls to go out there and be funny, man.

Loads of blokes think they're funny, but it counts for nothing unless you get up and have a go.

I really enjoy Sarah Silverman's fearlessness.

A comedian can only last till he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious.

I love stand-up. I look at it as a way to always stay productive. I couldn't imagine only being an actor or a writer. Because what the hell do I do when I'm not working? Mope?

Stand-up comedy - I love this job, and I gotta tell you, folks - knock wood - it's been working. 'Cause I was one of those kind of people, even when I had a regular job, I couldn't even call in sick right. You know, I was like, 'Hello? Yeah, I can't come in today. I have scurvy.

Here's the thing, with comedy - and I learned this from Will Ferrell - you can't be ashamed. If you're doing comedy, you have to fully commit to the joke. Shame is not part of it. If you act shy or uncomfortable about your body, that makes the audience shy and uncomfortable. And in a comedy you just want them to loosen up and laugh.

I was fooling everyone by surrounding myself with funny people. But then I put myself out there - writing my own sketches, going on stage with nobody surrounding me - and for some reason people were still laughing.

I might've been witty, but I didn't have a shtick. So, I never considered myself a comedian.

To stand up on the stage is to say to many people: Look at me. How can you do that without speaking the only truth you know? There is no such thing as an uncommitted actor.

I'm never afraid to try something if I think it's funny. And I know I'll regret it if I don't.

I've been getting in trouble my whole life and I really don't care what anybody thinks of what I do on stage as a comic.

I'm in awe of comedians that do things that I can't do, whether it be a one-liner comic like Anthony Jeselnik, whether it be social issues commentary, whether it be - hell, Carrot Top. I can't be Carrot Top. I can't.

I like to take chances, and that's the key to comedy -- dancing like an idiot but doing it with wild abandon.

I love doing [stand-up]. I love making people laugh no matter how. Whether it's a commercial, or a TV show, or a reality show, or a talk show, or a special, or a book. However I can make people laugh, that's what I want to do.

There's something therapeutic about connecting with an audience - when there's something really sort of odd or silly that you think is funny, and conveying it to an audience.

The whole thing about working in front of the camera is to make people laugh when they're not supposed to.

For me, comedians are like the epitome for everything great, and they terrify me. I just want to be them. I want to be like them.

I'm not afraid to look bad on the screen.

I've got too much respect for stand-ups to call myself one.

It was probably years before I was confident enough in stand-up that I was able to talk about the things I wanted to talk about, the way I wanted to talk about them.

In my personal life, I have always been bold, from the clothes I wear to how I talk. For me, boldness does not necessarily mean stripping. I think people have wrong notion about boldness. For me, bold is being different.

I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.

I still do standup.

I know I can get laughs anywhere, in front of any crowd, if I'm given the chance.