Sara Pascoe Quotes

Once you become a comedian, you accept that people are just going to yell stuff at you.

I never wanted to be road comic.

When you do stand-up, you're just concerned with trying to leave with some semblance of human dignity at the end of your performance.

I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself.

You say a line and you wait for them to laugh, then you say another line and you wait... It felt weird to me. But it's interesting and the energy is almost like theatre, I suppose, with all the people there.

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

I'm hardly a known name, but I don't want to go, like, 'Oh, people call me a storyteller comedian, let me just go up and just talk about my day.' I don't want that to happen.

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.

After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked.

I'd been to the Comedy Store, and I loved the terror of it and the way the best comedians could control the crowd. What confidence that would give you, if you could somehow survive.

I have a tough time with stand-up because I am an improviser. I can riff; I can do crowd work, so I don't prepare.

I can't claim to ever have done stand-up.

I don't know that I'd be a comedian if I stayed in Canada.

I haven't been offstage for more than two days since I started doing comedy.

I don't write anything. It's all done onstage, which is why I always tell younger comics that they just have to go do it. You have to get up, talk, and take a thought or a word and just expound, and you find it in there. I don't sit down and write.

I wasn't properly performing in Canada. I was just starting out, and when everyone starts out, they're terrible. I'm sure there are some Kellyanne Conway videos of me just really dying on a stage.

People sometimes say how standup is so hard, and I always tell them that it's hard at the beginning.

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

One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There's so many things that I can not do in life, and this is, like, the one thing that I have mastery over. It's my world. And anybody who's coming to the show, it's like they're coming because they know that this is my world.

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.

I was like a Borscht Belt comedian trapped in the body of a 6-year-old. I was channeling Jackie Mason at 7.

The greatest thing about being a comedian is knowing other comedians. And you get to talk to them. Its the most fun.

I feel that if you can play on the streets or in a comedy club, then in a theatre it's a doddle because you've got an audience.

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

I could never do stand-up because it's that thing of having to get up on stage. And out of every 10 jokes you tell, nine of them have to get a really good response.