“Work on your craft, and your career will come. Work on your community,...” — Ali Farahnakian Quote

Work on your craft, and your career will come. Work on your community, and your career will come. But just work on your career, and you'll have neither a craft nor a community.

Baseball players practice, runners practice, so how can you practice being funny? You get up onstage. You train as an improviser, playing make-believe, using the vernacular of improvisation, saying 'yes and' to other people's ideas, making statements.

Teaching someone to be funny is like teaching someone to be fast. They're already fast. You're just making them faster.

There are a million ways of arriving at a performance, any number of them solid.

Being productive at your craft is important. Being productive in your devotion to grow as a human is essential.

The most important thing I learned from Dad about show business was never take myself seriously and never stop having fun with my craft.

I worked harder at my craft, and it took some time, but here I am today doing what I want to do, which is entertain people.

The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as a way into things that are not described. It's a thing of discovering. That's when writing is really working. You're on the trail of something, and you don't quite know what it is.