Ramy Youssef Quotes

When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism... What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people laugh. I was a few years out of college before I felt I had enough material. Then in 1988 I moved to L.A. and started to do some shows at comedy clubs.

One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There's so many things that I can not do in life, and this is, like, the one thing that I have mastery over. It's my world. And anybody who's coming to the show, it's like they're coming because they know that this is my world.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

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

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 think I have always tried to connect my comedy to my art.

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've been doing stand-up since '89.

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

I never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it.

I prefer being known for my stand-up because I write it. I love being an actor, and saying other people's words is great. But then, when I do stand-up, I love getting my own point of view out there.

I never thought I'd do comedy, ever, in a million years. I always thought comedy was just for fun - to me, the real stuff was the real dramatic stuff. Now I know it's all valuable. There's a real excitement, a good feeling when you can make people laugh.

I feel lucky that I can have people laugh solidly for a whole hour by just saying what I think and getting paid for it.

Stand-up. It's the only place I'm comfortable.

I still love to walk on stage and make people laugh, and I work very, very hard at it, and I take it seriously.

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

If I want to be a real comedian, I can't let you dictate my material, so I started creating more new material.

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

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

I've been entertaining men with my comedy for many, many years, and I don't plan on stopping.

I like stand-up. I've done it since I was a teenager, so it's kind of my first job and first kind of creative way to express myself.

The beautiful thing about stand-up advice is that it applies to anybody, any gender, any race, any age. The best thing you can do - everybody will tell you - is get on stage as much as you can. I would add to that: get on stage as much as you can - with the people you admire.

I don't write anything. It's all done onstage, which is why I always tell younger comics that they just have to go do it. You have to get up, talk, and take a thought or a word and just expound, and you find it in there. I don't sit down and write.

I know I'm going to be doing standup for the rest of my life.

I've done comedy on stage, in fact it is one of my strong points.