Kevin Nealon Quotes

A lot of people get into stand-up as a back door into acting or something. But I really like writing jokes and telling jokes.

I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.

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

I really admire stand-up, and I think I would have loved to learn how to do it. I think it's terrifying and thrilling. A really cool thing to do. It's a dying art, in a way.

I never used to tell jokes on stage. Now I'm cutting up jokes all night long.

I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.

Stand-up was my entree into the entertainment world. I didn't have to act out somebody else's words. I could just stand there with a microphone, and nobody would interrupt me. It's the most narcissistic thing you could probably do.

The beautiful thing about stand-up is you can create and immediately deliver, perform, and get paid for what you 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'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 started doing standup when I was in college, and I would incorporate a lot of characters into my act.

I tend to a lot of improvisational ranting, and that's fun. For me, stand-up has been, performance-wise, a really good outlet.

When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that.

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 did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.

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

Lewis Black taught me stand-up.

Yeah, I do stand-up, my own type of stand-up.

I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.

You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.

It takes many years to be a great comedian.

The only way to stay sharp is to do live shows. There is no part-time comedy.

I don't really do stand-up.

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.