Michelle Wolf Quotes

I really never had any ambitions to be a standup comic. I was talked into it by guys that I used to work out with.

I would like to do comedy. I can be a bit of a Jim Carrey. I was always the class clown.

I don't know that I'd be a comedian if I stayed in Canada.

No, I never really set out to be a stand up. I wanted to be a writer of some sort. I thought I'd do a bit of stand up and hopefully that will lead to stuff and little did I know it kind of snowballed. Before I knew it I was doing stand up 300 nights a year.

I never thought about 'being' in comedy when I grew up, because I didn't know it was a real job. But looking back, it's the only thing I ever really cared about.

If I had to design a career for myself, I would have done comedy.

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.

When I was, like, 15, I realized there could be a career in making people laugh - like, you could get paid to do it. That was insane to me.

I made people laugh as a kid, but that's not how you make a living.

I really can't pinpoint the one moment when I said I want to be a comic.

People are meant to be certain places, and I think I'm meant to be on a sound stage doing situation comedy.

If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.

I've always been a performer. I love doing impressions of people and being the clown.

I made a living out of being a class clown.

If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.

Basically I wanted to be a male comedian; those were my idols.

When I'm on stage, that's a job. It's acting, it's faking, just making fun of yourself, telling bad jokes - I'm pretty good in this - dancing, just to entertain.

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

I started standup at age nineteen. I decided that the only way I was going to try show business as a career was if I could make total strangers laugh.

From the very beginning I knew I had to be a comedian, and thus preferred being one.

Sometimes in stand-up, you want that late-night set where you get that five minutes, then you want a half-hour special, and then the crown, if you will, is an HBO special.

I did clown training for months.

I've always been funny, but I never considered it as a particular career path until my early 30s, when I realized that hip-hop wasn't going to be the long term.

I didn't have any plan to go into comedy.