Dan Mintz Quotes

I really love standup because it's something that I've been literally doing for 40 years, which means I'm a thousand years old.

I think I probably would have gone into stand-up.

From the age of 14, I remember thinking I wanted to be a comedian. But that was like saying I wanted to be an astronaut. It felt like a million miles away, something I could never do, but would be great to.

As a stand-up comic, you have to do the road.

I continue to do standup because there's a connection with a live audience - there are skills that you do learn as a standup comedian that help you on a set.

So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.

I've been a comedian since I was fourteen. But I've never really been a CEO.

To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's the best job in the world.

I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist.

I didn't become a comedian to work this hard.

Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it's hard to turn away. Then, of course, you're hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.

I just like doing standup, that's all I'm interested in or good at.

I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I do, it's what I've been doing and it's what I'm going to keep doing.

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

I don't know why, but people tend to look at stand-ups and think they can act, which actually isn't the case. But never mind. I thought: if that's the area where they're looking, then that's the area where I'll put myself - even as a means to an end. And it was.

When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.

I didn't really want to be a comedian.

I realize as I get older that stand-up is a huge part of who I am. I think I'll do it for the rest of my life.

I always tell comics you got to hang with your stand-up.

If I tried to do comedy for the rest of my career, I would not be very successful.

The minute I started doing comedy, the doors opened.

I was lucky enough to find stand-up really early in life. And I'm so grateful that I did, because the second I found it, I was like, 'I know what I want to do'.

The role of a comedian is to go in and make something funny. That might be a situation where I'm writing, a situation where I'm in control, like standup or something of my own that I'm making, or it might be something like being an actor in someone else's project.

I started comedy in 2006. I didn't even think it was a thing I could do.

I got into standup because I wanted to be an actor, and then I ended up loving standup for the next eleven years.