Ellie Taylor Quotes

When you're a stand-up, you play in front of 600 people, and it's all about timing. I could never do stand-up comedy; it would be way too hard for me.

Don't ever rope me in as a late-night talk show host. I don't want to be one.

It's hard to do a variety show. It's hard to do all that small talk and make it sound real.

Stand-up is not something that you're good at right away. You have to do it a ton. But, I think I got to shave a year off because I didn't have to get over stage fright.

My ability has always been to walk out on the stage and see the audience and figure out what they wanna hear.

I've got too much respect for stand-ups to call myself one.

Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.

I feel that if you can play on the streets or in a comedy club, then in a theatre it's a doddle because you've got an audience.

After I graduated, I tried Broadway, which was difficult for me. It was tough to get a part on Broadway, so I just started talking to audiences at different social gatherings, and little by little I became Don Rickles - whatever that is.

The more you perform and get out there, I guess the more practice you have at it and the better you are and the more comfortable you are on stage.

An 'OMG' of mine would probably be speaking on stage and performing in front of thousands of people!

I've done a lot of stage in my life, but I never had to dominate a stage for three hours.

Stand-up keeps you alive. It is definitely the most specialized field in comedy because you need to stay sharp and well-tuned every night.

I think it's really, really good for me to be on stage once a year. It keeps your chops good. There's nothing else like it.

I wouldn't call myself a standup in the presence of Jerry Seinfeld or Chris Rock, but I do my share of it and it has been and remains part of my activity and I like it.

Acting is all about timing. I mean, who has better timing than the MCs?

At this point, I feel fairly comfortable in terms of performance. I think having a sketch background actually helps a lot. Because my background is acting, and stand-up, in a lot of ways, is acting.

It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.

There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it.

After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked.

I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter.

I definitely want to act, but hosting is something that I am really enjoying. The first show I ever hosted was 'Jhalak Dikhla Ja.' I was super nervous then, but now I am very comfortable.

You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.

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.

It takes many years to be a great comedian.