Roger Craig Smith Quotes

Sometimes I start off shows by explaining to people that it's just a bunch of stories - I always say 'It's like standup, just less funny.'

I still do standup.

I got into standup because I wanted to be an actor, and then I ended up loving standup for the next eleven years.

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

If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.

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.

I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.

Standup led me to acting because I liked standup, and I saw people on a stage, and the closest, nearest thing to me was doing plays. It was like, that's the same thing as standup - people are on a stage; they're being seen and saying things - so, because of my love of standup, I moved towards acting.

I started standup at age nineteen. I decided that the only way I was going to try show business as a career was if I could make total strangers laugh.

I definitely enjoyed being in front of an audience, making people laugh, and telling stories, so when I realized I could do all three at the same time, that was it.

I've done comedy on stage, in fact it is one of my strong points.

I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.

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

I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.

I'm like the master of ceremonies being funny, and then sometimes people you're with, girlfriends and stuff, are like, 'God I wish I had the person on stage to be with all the time.'

Even when I lecture per se, I am a joke comedian, I can do the voices.

About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.

I started doing stand-up in college.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

I might've been witty, but I didn't have a shtick. So, I never considered myself a comedian.

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

Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.

Ever since I was 2 or 3, I loved to perform for people. I would walk up to another table in a restaurant and crack a joke, sing a song, do a dance, or something entertaining, and the 'audience' would almost always smile and laugh.

Yeah, I do stand-up, my own type of stand-up.

You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.