Kelly Bishop Quotes

I love standing at a microphone and making a room of people laugh. That's the part of the work I love; everything else is extraneous.

I'll do anything to get the laugh. I love it.

I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.

There's an art to comedy.

Comedy is not easy to do - where you make someone laugh out loud in their living room.

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.

I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

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.

My job has always been to entertain people. I want people to laugh.

When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.

I think everyone's different but in comedy, I try to do my scene to make the director and the other actors laugh. If I can make them laugh and we have the same sensibility, then I'm on the right page.

Comedy is very difficult. I love it because when you do it right, it's the best feeling in the world.

Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.

Oh, I love stand-up.

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

I just try to deliver the laughs every time I get the opportunity.

Comedy is very difficult. You've got to have a perfect sense of timing.

One night in a club in Boston, I tried the name Roger Duck. No laughs. The next night, I tried Orson Bean, putting together a pompous first name and a silly second name. I got laughs, so I decided to keep it.

I was once doing a gig with Tim Vine; he was backstage, and there was one of those long strings of polystyrene coffee cups. He picked up the whole stack of about 20, walked on stage and then said: 'Bloody hell this coffee's hot!' which I think is the funniest thing anyone has ever said.

I love doing comedy - I get a laugh out of it, it's not so serious.

Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.

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.

Comedy is much more challenging, because you have to have the same level of belief but you have to make people laugh, and that's definitely a challenge.