Bad Quote by Eva Victor

Before I started doing stand-up, I never envisioned doing it. I strictly saw myself doing improv and sketch comedy, and then, when I started…

— Quinta Brunson

I started doing improv comedy in 2007, and I think it was that that gave me the confidence to try doing stand-up!

— Rachel Parris

When I started stand-up, the first thing I did was to take an improv class.

— J. B. Smoove

I've never done stand-up in my life. I don't know if that's entirely interesting, but I came up in improv.

— Sam Richardson

Improv is so different, it's such a collaborative thing, you're working with other people, nothing is planned and it's kind of this community mentality,…

— Aubrey Plaza

I love improv-ing, you know, from very early on when I started acting the school that I went to and everything was very big…

— Jennifer Lopez

I started doing improv in college, and I really liked it.

— Rachel Dratch

I just had this perception of stand up that was like you're alone on stage, where improv is very collaborative. That's also why I…

— Ayo Edebiri

The biggest thing that comes out of improv that gets built on is just character traits. You know, for me the singing was born…

— Ed Helms

I think, in a way, the stand-up prepped me for the improv, because I do a lot of riffing in my stand-up.

— Paul F. Tompkins

I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.

— Dakota Johnson

I started learning to sing what I liked, to experience it in a visceral way. Then it's inside. Get rid of the neurosis and…

— Joe Satriani