Amanda Seales Quotes

Um, I'm just naturally super-funny. No, not really. I've never been in The Groundlings or anything.

I made people laugh as a kid, but that's not how you make a living.

From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.

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

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

I adore doing comedy, I think it's fantastic. I never saw myself doing exclusively comedy.

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

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

Like other kids wanted to become firemen or astronauts, I wanted to make people laugh.

I knew at an early age that I wanted to pursue comedy.

I got into standup because I wanted to be an actor, and then I ended up loving standup for the next eleven years.

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.

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

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 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 a comedian since I was fourteen. But I've never really been a CEO.

My stand-up has a lot of performance in it, and I loved doing it so much that, after years, I put the idea of having a show on the back burner.

To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's the best job in the world.

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

Stand-up is the foundation to my career. It's what I started out doing.

Jon Stewart hires people that he thinks are funny. That's it. That's the only requirement.

I started doing my own animated movies when I was in ninth grade; that's when I got the filmmaking bug. When I was about 16, I started writing jokes for doing stand up, and then I was 19 and started doing stand up.