Tom Green Quotes

I've been entertaining men with my comedy for many, many years, and I don't plan on stopping.

Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.

Stand-up was my entree into the entertainment world. I didn't have to act out somebody else's words. I could just stand there with a microphone, and nobody would interrupt me. It's the most narcissistic thing you could probably do.

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.

I got into standup because I wanted to be an actor, and then I ended up loving standup for the next eleven years.

A lot of people get into stand-up as a back door into acting or something. But I really like writing jokes and telling jokes.

I've been performing stand-up comedy for ten years, it's what I love and will always do.

One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There's so many things that I can not do in life, and this is, like, the one thing that I have mastery over. It's my world. And anybody who's coming to the show, it's like they're coming because they know that this is my world.

I really admire stand-up, and I think I would have loved to learn how to do it. I think it's terrifying and thrilling. A really cool thing to do. It's a dying art, in a way.

Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy, and then toiled in obscurity for years.

I've always had a niche for entertaining since I was a little girl.

I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.

I realize as I get older that stand-up is a huge part of who I am. I think I'll do it for the rest of my life.

I feel lucky that I can have people laugh solidly for a whole hour by just saying what I think and getting paid for it.

I think I probably would have gone into stand-up.

I started standup at age nineteen. I decided that the only way I was going to try show business as a career was if I could make total strangers laugh.

I definitely enjoyed being in front of an audience, making people laugh, and telling stories, so when I realized I could do all three at the same time, that was it.

I continue to do standup because there's a connection with a live audience - there are skills that you do learn as a standup comedian that help you on a set.

I've done comedy on stage, in fact it is one of my strong points.

When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism... What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people laugh. I was a few years out of college before I felt I had enough material. Then in 1988 I moved to L.A. and started to do some shows at comedy clubs.

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.

Stand-up is my favorite thing I've ever done. There's so much independence.

I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.

I would recommend that anyone who wants to do comedy on TV to do radio first.

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