Rita Rudner Quotes

I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays.

At the end of the day, I do think I'm happiest doing comedy. I love it. I know that I can do other things. I love drama as well.

I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to create my own comedy. But I still love doing stand-up and will probably be doing it forever. I'd love to be an old guy who can't really walk, can't really stand-up, and I have to sit on the stool and tell jokes.

I like comedy. I would love to do comedy for a long time.

Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.

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

I never thought I'd end up doing comedy, but actually, it's been something I've really relished the challenge of and ended up doing quite a bit of.

I never knew if I would get my own show, but I knew I loved stand-up.

But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up.

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

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

I always wanted to be a comedian but never thought I'd be a musical comedian.

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

People who have heard of me have heard of me mostly through presenting and asked, 'Why have you gone into comedy?'

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

Comedians really are like a species. That's not to be exclusive. Anyone can kind of become one. You have to pay your dues, though.

I really like to do comedy, and I did comedy the first 2 years after I graduated college, so I really love it and appreciate it.

But I just think I was lucky enough to figure out early on that I wanted to do comedy, so that's what I put all my effort into.

I did sketch comedy for years. I've always enjoyed it.

If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.

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

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

But I love stand-up, and it's where I came from creatively, so it's something I never want to walk away from.

I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.

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.