Peri Gilpin Quotes

When you're in comedy, people always come up and say, 'Oh, it must be so hard.' It really isn't hard unless you're not good at it. If you can do it, its really kind of fun and easy.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

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

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

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

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

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

I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.

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 was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy.

Stand-up is kind of like my home base, and doing stand-up in New York is what I like doing most.

Comedy is my passion. I'm going to do this until I drop.

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.

I think it'd be a lot of fun to jump back into the comedy world.

I really want to do comedy.

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

I started pursuing stand-up comedy in 12th grade.

More and more, I find that I love doing comedies; that instant gratification that you get on stage when they laugh at you feels really good.

I started doing improv comedy in 2007, and I think it was that that gave me the confidence to try doing stand-up!

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.

I'm trying to be a comedian, you know?

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

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.