Jay Mohr Quotes

I'm a comic because I don't want to do the nine-to-five, I have to modify that and say I'm a comic because I have an inability to do a nine-to-five.

I'm proud to say that I've never had a normal job. I started doing stand-up when I was in high school, purely as a measure to never get a proper job.

There are some people who want me and my husband to stay where it is safe and draw a paycheck every week instead of what we are doing (which is creating and sharing our art with others). The truth is that there are people in this world - Dave and I being two - who would die a slow painful death if stuck in an office and made to do the kind of work that we are not made to do.

Some people use stand-up to get something else in their careers, but it's truly the art form of stand-up I love.

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.

I don't see myself as a moviemaker only, you know? When I can do a picture, I do. But I don't work like a business, in pictures. I am not obliged to make one picture after the other in order to live.

I didn't want to go to college or work in an office or have a nine-to-five job. I knew that quite clearly before I left school.

You know, it wasn't even that I'm a funny guy, I just loved stand-up comedy and I wanted to do it. It was one of the few things in my life that I knew I was going to be able to do, and I also felt as though I'd be able to do it the way I wanted to do it.

Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.

When I brought 'Sex and the City' to HBO, I wanted to do something independent, where I could be like, 'I don't care if anybody watches this thing. Just let me do something that I would love to see.' Honestly, the success of 'Sex and the City' was what was most surprising to me. It was sort of like the anti-TV-show in my mind.

I'm actually living my life with the material I choose to work with.

I just create, that's what I do.

My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.

I am lucky enough not to have to take jobs unless I love the material.

I did not want to do things the way they are usually done in Hindi cinema.

As a human being, I am a citizen, but as an artist, I am asocial.

I continue to write. It's just one of those things that I do. I'll have periods when I write and periods when I don't. But you don't want it to become a discipline really. If it becomes a discipline, it becomes a chore and that's no good.

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.

I have a desire to tell stories. And I'm never quite satisfied.

I do like artfully breaking rules.

In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.

I want people to see my movies. My talent, my sensibilities are what people want to see in the movies... While I have the talent to make the kind of movies people want to see I want to continue to do that, keep making big pictures and make what I love. I’m really just making the films I want to see. There’s not a strategy.