Elaine Stritch Quotes

I don't really do stand-up.

I think you develop strong instincts when you're a comedian. You have to pay your bills by making people laugh every six seconds... or not. I had to do that for 22 years.

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

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

Stand-up, for me, is really more of an addiction, so you have to feed the beast whenever you can.

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

I could never do stand-up because it's that thing of having to get up on stage. And out of every 10 jokes you tell, nine of them have to get a really good response.

I never knew if I would get my own show, but I knew I loved stand-up.

A lot of people who do drama say comedy is the hardest thing, but, not wanting to sound like a bighead, comedy is easy for me, as I've always been fairly funny.

I tend to a lot of improvisational ranting, and that's fun. For me, stand-up has been, performance-wise, a really good outlet.

I'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll go on for 20 minutes.

I try to write three jokes every day. I don't sit down and write them, it's just things that pop into my head. Then I'll go watch it fail onstage that night.

Comedy is something that I'm definitely looking to get into. I had a little taste of it and I do intend on going to classes for it because I think it's a different muscle, and it's hard to find female comedians.

There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be.

When I began doing stand-up, it took me a long time to get an hour's worth of material together.

Bad improv happens with people who are inexperienced with each other and don't know the craft that well. But bad stand-up is something that could happen to someone at any level in their career.

Everyone tells me I need to do comedy. It's never something that crossed my mind, but to be able to do a true comedy and make people laugh, that would be great.

I really want to do comedy.

I knew at an early age that I wanted to pursue comedy.

My background is in comedy.

Doing comedy is very challenging, as I am a shy person in real life.

The hardest part of comedy is writing the jokes, and the second-hardest part is telling the jokes. To me, everything else is significantly easier.

I thought that I was going to be a stand-up comedian or an actress. Turns out, I can't act my way out of a paper bag and stand-up comedy is a lot harder than it appears.

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

I have always wanted to do comedy.