Colin Quinn

With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.

Stand-up is live, so I'm used to being live for most of my career. It's interesting.

My stand-up act? I combine the fact that the world is a violent place with the fact that each person is responsible for the situation they are in.

I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.

When I look back now I realize I was such an obnoxious kid but, you know, I went to schools like you, like a public school in New York so compared to the anarchy that was going on there, they really wouldn't - I wasn't like a bad kid. I saw people come in and punch the teachers.

Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.

You can't make money on Broadway. You make nothing. You maybe make like $1,350 a week after you pay out all the producers.

A weird sort of awareness set in, like, 'Wow. My standup isn't just separate from everything else I do anymore.' With Twitter and Face book, everything is universal that everything everybody says gets seen.

I was a class clown.

If I had to give up everything else and keep just one aspect of the job, I'd have to keep writing because I love it. Yes, I enjoy performing, too. But I couldn't give up writing material.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself.