Abby Elliott Quotes

You can't be a proper comic unless you've been out on stage and felt the fear.

I haven't really done a lot of comedy. It's something that terrifies me.

I've been doing stand-up since '89.

I never wanted to be road comic.

I had some friends that tried it down there, and I went to a couple of open mics, and I just kind of got this... this sick urge to try it instead of just watching it.

I love comedy and I did a few gigs here and there but it never really took off. It was too scary.

Stand-up, I find it really difficult. It's not really my thing.

Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it.

I was always the class clown; I made my family laugh, and that was when I was always happiest. I grew up listening to stand-up comedians' albums and watching them on TV, on 'The Tonight Show' and Letterman.

Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.

But I love stand-up, and it's where I came from creatively, so it's something I never want to walk away from.

Being a comedian is an incredible thing, but it can be scary sometimes.

Stand-up is the foundation to my career. It's what I started out doing.

Stand-up is the scariest thing - whether it's TV, movies, improv - stand-up is the worst.

I do love live performing, but I'm not a stand-up naturally, and I don't like the lifestyle of working just in the evenings at clubs and stuff - not a natural gig-er.

I just like doing standup, that's all I'm interested in or good at.

Stand-up is kind of like my home base, and doing stand-up in New York is what I like doing most.

I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.

Stand-up. It's the only place I'm comfortable.

I don't really do stand-up.

Getting up in front of the toughest crowds, you know, playing pubs in South Armagh - where people didn't necessarily even know what stand-up comedy was - you had to force yourself to do it. It went against every instinct in your body, but you did it anyway.

I never went on auditions because I would be terrible at it, so I just did stand-up.

I started comedy in 2006. I didn't even think it was a thing I could do.

With stand-up you can just be yourself on stage. And ideally, you can't see the crowd most of the time - it's just lights in your face. But I still have had terrible stage fright.

I don't do stand-up anymore.