Michael Patrick King Quotes

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

I've been a stand-up comedian for years, and I can be silly.

I always knew I wanted to do comedy. I like making people laugh.

I started comedy in, like, 1998.

I had always been heavily influenced by stand-up.

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

With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.

I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.

Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it's my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers.

It's good to be funny when you are a comedian.

I like to do comedy. It's my real passion. I want to make people laugh.

I just want to be funny, I just want to do comedy.

I will always love to perform standup comedy.

I started quite young at school, compering a charity event at an old people's home. I would do stand up and impressions and enjoyed the laughter. It's very addictive. It's a lovely sensation to say something and hear a whole room laugh.

I've actually done a lot of comedy.

I try to make the majority of my audience laugh.

I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career - anything for a laugh.

I love comedy. Playing the underdog, and getting the laughs is my form of entertainment. I could think of nothing different that I would want to be doing at this time in my life.

If you want to be a comedian, go out. Do a week in Des Moines, Iowa. Try to make those people laugh.

Oh, I love stand-up.

The comedian just wants to get a laugh.

Everyone tells me I need to do comedy. It's never something that crossed my mind, but to be able to do a true comedy and make people laugh, that would be great.

I just try to deliver the laughs every time I get the opportunity.

Comedy is not easy to do - where you make someone laugh out loud in their living room.

I always wanted to be a comedian.