Regis Philbin Quotes

Improv relies just as much on listening as it does you delivering dialogue. That's the hard for some people. Some people just concentrate on what they're going to say, and they're not listening. You have to listen in order to see where the other person is going to.

When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can understand, using a vocabulary that they instantly get, and I always have to feel my way around to figure that out. It's a lot of fun, and it's also really challenging - challenging in a different way from performing.

My mother says I was vaccinated with a phonograph needle. I love to talk. I just love to talk.

I think making a documentary gets you out and about more, with people. With stand-up, you're talking at people. With documentaries you're talking with people, and you're listening a lot more.

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

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

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

I've never really told jokes. I'm not good at it.

I'm not a standup. I don't really have jokes. I don't have 10 minutes. It took a while for me to realize this.

It's a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don't understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television.

I don't know now if I'm funny. I just keep talking and hope that I hit something that's funny.

I think if you can get people to laugh, you can get people to listen.

Everyone wants to talk, you've just got to find a way to get them to talk.

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

Certainly I'm always willing to talk to anyone who's interested in talking to me!

For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.

The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.

I told jokes badly.

The game is just one long conversation, and I'm anticipating that, and I will say things like 'Did you know that?' or 'You're probably wondering why.' I'm really just conversing rather than just doing play-by-play. I never thought of myself as having a style. I don't use key words. And the best thing I do? I shut up.

With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny.

A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience. Modern society is too vast and too restless to give a conversationalist a fair chance.

You can tell on-stage when a joke's starting to lose its pop. It doesn't mean people don't want to hear it anymore; it means I don't want to do it anymore. Because I want to move on to something that has a knee-jerk reaction just like you get when you tell somebody a joke that they've never heard.

I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.

Social media isn't a one-way broadcast; it's a multiway opportunity for dialogue.