John Boyega Quotes

I started doing improv when I was 8 years old, so it's always been in my life. I would feel naked without it.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

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 love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.

I was an extroverted kid and performed, like, acting and singing. Then, the older I got, I realized I enjoyed performing things that I came up with myself more and I enjoyed making people laugh more than making people cry or think.

The difference between you and the funny person on TV is that they acted on their ideas.

I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera.

Do you think I am standing here, making this up as I go? I am sorry to disillusion you. I am not Robin Williams. I am the king of the pen.

I'm going to be Dog, and I'm going to be an entertainer. And I'm going to make mistakes.

Ever since I was 2 or 3, I loved to perform for people. I would walk up to another table in a restaurant and crack a joke, sing a song, do a dance, or something entertaining, and the 'audience' would almost always smile and laugh.

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 guess I was the class clown - with a name like Albert Einstein, you don't hide in the back. I'd read the school bulletin to the class, and I'd add activities and make stuff up. It was good, a good 10 minutes every morning.

I feel like I'm absolutely insane, and I don't think I could probably do anything else. I just love entertaining, and I feel like pretending to be people... and having that as a job is crazy.

The biggest impact that acting and theater had was, of course, stage presence, but it also had a big impact on my writing.

I come from standup and improv.

I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing.

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

I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.

Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.

I think comedy I've learned is really just about relaxing and trusting yourself and allowing yourself to fail.

I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep being lucky enough to entertain people anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium.

In fifth grade, we had to write a story and read it in front of the class. When I read mine out, the class were just belly laughing. And I remember being like, 'This is the coolest!' So I want to dedicate my life to trying to make people laugh. I can't imagine doing anything else.

When I got on Stern I realized that this was the one job where you could be really honest and open, almost like Richard Pryor or something. You can be honest about your life and get laughs.

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.