Kurt Braunohler Quotes

New York is a place that can grind you down and spit you out. A true New Yorker doesn't get ground down, he gets polished.

It's so much harder to make a living off improv. Improv is so rarified and for such a specific audience.

Since I was 14. I grew up surfing. That's all I wanted to do.

I'm just going to keep doing comedy because I don't know what else to do. I have no other applicable skills.

I grew up very Catholic. I wanted to be a priest.

I put so much energy into with improv. You can only perform it at a place where people are, essentially, taking improv classes so that they just appreciate what's happening.

I think having a daughter is just terrifying. Women in the world get the short end of the stick all the time in many, many ways, and so it's just terrifying to be like, "Well, this is the world we chose to bring you into. I'm sorry." It's not knowing how to prepare for that.

Paint yourself into a corner so that you don't have any other option but to continue forward.

Improv requires your audience to be informed about what improv is. With stand-up, anybody can sit down and watch stand-up and laugh at jokes.

Just start writing and you'll find what you want to say.

So many funny things happen to me everyday I should have a TV show.

When you're doing improv for seven years, you're an old soul of the improv world.

Probably all of my advice is bad advice.

People have said that to me: They say I have a TV face.

I've had a good run of birthdays, and now no one will notice when I die.

I used to be really snobby about music. I'm not as snobby as I used to be, though. I have this great bit about not getting mad about music anymore. It just happens when you get older.

If you're waiting for inspiration, you'll wait until you're dead.