Solo Act Quotes

Obviously I still gig on my own, but I've always heard my music with a band.

Stand-up is probably the most solo performance in art.

I think Thespis just wanted to be a solo player, you know?

Comedy is immediate. Comedy is a solo mission. You're all by yourself, up there. And when you're in a film, on a set, it's a collaborative effort. It's about me being a tool for somebody else to create a story and a character from nothing, from their imagination.

I experimented with my own one-man show a couple of years ago in Aspen when HBO used to have their comedy festival there. I called it 'A History of Me.'

Kevin Nash came to me; he goes, 'Book, hey, Book, man, you know, this nWo thing is getting real hot, bro. And, man, we need some color, man.' I swear to God, that's how he said it! 'We need some color, bro.' He goes, 'We want to bring you in.' I go, 'Man, thanks, but no thanks. No way.' I said, 'I'm a solo act, man.'

I'm still finding my legs, performance-wise, being up there by myself. I think I have a bit of proving myself ahead of me.

I'd like to do plays, maybe a one man show.

I'm not generally a big solo guy, because I'm not into showing off that way.

What I love is when I play gigs, it's just me and a guitar - very simple, very direct and intimate, and you hear every lyric, and you hear every detail.

Stand-up comedy is a really lonely profession: you 'perform for 2000 people, then you go to a hotel room by yourself and stare at a wall.

I've had the pleasure of working closely with Marc Von Em as a singer, but when I heard his original stuff, I asked him to open up a 10,000 seat gig. Just him, his guitar, and his songs. He killed it!

He may not be in a class all by himself, but it don't take long to call the roll.

I play in a lot of empty rooms.

Being alone onstage is like legalized insanity.

Anybody who's done standup will tell you that there's nothing like it. The show starts at 8:00, the curtain goes up and there's nobody else except you and the audience, and you just perform for them for two hours. Nobody yells, 'Cut!' There are no retakes. That is still the most exciting medium for me, and I love it.

Stand-up don't get no respect - it's the hardest thing to do in show business. You don't have no band and there's no music.

My deal will always be one solo performance-nominated or not. Not some thrown together rock tribute.

Standup is really the only thing in the entertainment business that you do totally alone.

Playing live is closer to theatre, although when you're up there on your own, it's quite scary and revealing because you're playing your own songs. It's like a one man show that you've written yourself.

I have been lucky enough to work in all kinds of comedy. I prefer working with other people. I could never do stand-up.

Just gimme some stage. I'll make my own way once I get there.

When I write, I'm sort of old-fashioned in the sense that I like to write something that I feel I could just perform alone, obviously, because I do that a lot in concert.

I'm not the kind of person who ever thought, 'Oh, a one-woman show - bring it on!'

When you're doing standup, it's just you. It's your written jokes. You perform it however your personality is.