“Every year in Edinburgh, I end up waiting behind the curtain about to ...” — James Acaster Quote

“Every year in Edinburgh, I end up waiting behind the curtain about to go on stage, and I have a moment of thinking, 'No one's told me what to do with this show. I've done exactly what I wanted. This is the biggest arts festival in the world, and all these people have shown up. Aren't I lucky?' It really is amazing.”

“You can play a gig as a band and not know that they hated you; with standup, after every line, you know.”

“Every comic delves into the personal archive when their imagination runs dry.”

“Whether you win or not, the night the Oscars are over, the curtain goes down and you go back to the grind. Period.”

“I was born behind the Iron Curtain, and I remember heated discussions about large-scale terra-forming projects, such as reversing the direction of the river Ob or putting up large reflectors into space to heat up Siberia.”

“I was always the first person in the theater all the time. If it was an eight-o'clock curtain, I was here at five-thirty, and it wasn't that I needed to vocalize, because I was all warmed up. I couldn't wait for it to begin.”