Hal Sparks Quotes

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.

When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.

You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well. 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.

Well, I think my stand-up is often kind of visual. Not like Carrot Top visual, but visual.

I think, in a way, the stand-up prepped me for the improv, because I do a lot of riffing in my stand-up.

I think anybody in front of a crowd is a comedian.

I'm really good at standup. I always win at standup.

I still do standup.

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

The really good stand up comedians can be angry but relatable, and they have interestingly humanizing personalities. Their observational skills are far greater than mine, so I'll just stick to reading lines off a page.

I like to do talk show appearances where I get to just be myself, and I do stand-up where I can completely be myself. That's what I've always loved the most, of anything.

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

The first time I ever did a play, in junior high school, I said to myself, 'Hey, people like me doing this. I'm making them laugh.'

Stand-up is hard.

If you are doing stand-up comedy, you have to be confident in what you are doing. That doesn't mean just because you are confident you are funny.

If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance.

If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.

The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience.

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

Stand-up. It's the only place I'm comfortable.

I'll never stop doing stand-up. There's nothing better than getting in front of 2,500 people and making an entire room laugh.

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

Standup is a tough job and a gritty job.

Stand-up, I find it really difficult. It's not really my thing.

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