Tom Green Quotes

I personally don't lock in a performance, because I do leave room for things to happen, so I just make sure I'm very intimate with what I'm saying and why I'm saying it so that no matter what happens, we can do whatever we want to do and leave space for play.

Theatre gives you wings as an actor.

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

I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.

I like to improvise.

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.

Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry, and then people thought I was funny, so I ran with it.

I gravitated toward stand-up because there's no overhead. I mean, literally, there's no overhead: Often, you're outdoors performing in front of groups of people.

I can tell jokes. I can talk to the audience. I can relax. I can change my songs whenever I want. I can change the tempos. I can change the mood, because I'm in charge.

The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period.

The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work.

My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.

It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're writers who perform their own material. It's more interesting. And they're sexy because they risk more. Stand-up comedians risk more than anyone.

The immediacy of improvisation is intoxicating, but there's an intimacy that you get that's very different when you're doing drama.

I enjoy stand up so much because I take time off, and then I'll be excited to go back to it.

I come from a much freer kind of performance thing, where I rely on my own improv and my own sense of humor.

Sometimes people have this notion that improvisation is simply intuitive leaping into the unknown.

A mimicry artiste should be spontaneous and he should be able to crack jokes on the spot.

Ballet, there's a right way to do things, and it's black and white, and it's all striving for perfection. Acting is not that way. It's very gray, and the messier you can be, the better. The mistakes that you make are the gold and the beautiful stuff.

Doing comedy was liberating in a way.

I feel passionately that we need more space on TV for sketch shows for character actors to experiment.

Unlike films, theatre allows you to experiment as an actor, which is fulfilling.

The beauty of stand-up is that it's very flexible, it's very malleable and immediate. Whatever is in your head that day you can verbalise in some way that night. It's the medium that suits me best.

I needed to be more self-determining, and the most self-determining thing you can do in comedy is stand-up.

When you do stand-up, it's so autonomous: I can say anything.