Rose Leslie Quotes

I'm trying to be a comedian, you know?

I always wanted to be a comedian.

Comedy is what I really want to do and propel.

Ultimately, I just decided stand-up comedy is a huge commitment, and if you want to be the best, you have to give it one hundred per cent.

I'd love to do a comedy. I'm terrified of comedy. I don't think I'm funny, but I guess that's why it's so thrilling.

Loads of blokes think they're funny, but it counts for nothing unless you get up and have a go.

Probably one of the reasons I became a comedian is that you get a chance to control when people laugh at you.

I have always wanted to do comedy.

I like comedy. I would love to do comedy for a long time.

Comedy is like math - you can check your answer because you know you've gotten it right if you get a laugh. It just makes sense to me. I feel like because I've had to keep that tool in my box for so long, I'm ready to show it off a bit.

Here's the thing, with comedy - and I learned this from Will Ferrell - you can't be ashamed. If you're doing comedy, you have to fully commit to the joke. Shame is not part of it. If you act shy or uncomfortable about your body, that makes the audience shy and uncomfortable. And in a comedy you just want them to loosen up and laugh.

I feel I've always got to keep my stand-up because I never want to lose it.

I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.

I think I always was a bit of a class clown, but I don't know how successful I was at that. I always think, when I read about people being class clowns, I imagine them being actually very funny, and I don't know that I was. But I tried to be, I think.

The thing about stand-ups is you can't really get good unless you're failing in front of a large number of people. That makes stand-up comedy unique: you need a tremendous amount of reserve within you to take the rejection from the audience, and without it, you can't do anything.

I think comedy I've learned is really just about relaxing and trusting yourself and allowing yourself to fail.

I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.

I'm really good at standup. I always win at standup.

I always knew I wanted to do comedy. I like making people laugh.

Nine out of 10 times these guys will hit it-they'll be on something incredibly funny, but one out of 10, two out of 10, they'll fall flat on their faces. That's what makes them great actors: they take those chances, they don't play it safe.

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

The difference between you and the funny person on TV is that they acted on their ideas.

I wanted to be a comedian.

Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.

When you're in comedy, people always come up and say, 'Oh, it must be so hard.' It really isn't hard unless you're not good at it. If you can do it, its really kind of fun and easy.