Greg Fitzsimmons Quotes

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

I've been doing stand-up since '89.

I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.

But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up.

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.

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

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

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.

If I'm not in the theatre, I'm in an open mic night or doing a guest set at the Comedy Club, or whatever, just trying to develop stuff.

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.

The beautiful thing about stand-up is you can create and immediately deliver, perform, and get paid for what you do.

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

Stand-up comedy is mine: it's my entity; it's my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

Theo does comedy now, and he's traveling around the country doing comedy, and I actually just saw him, he's from Louisiana, and I just saw him when I went home to visit my family in Louisiana. I saw his comedy show and he was brilliant.

Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.

Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.

I do love live performing, but I'm not a stand-up naturally, and I don't like the lifestyle of working just in the evenings at clubs and stuff - not a natural gig-er.

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

I never wanted to be road comic.

Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it's hard to turn away. Then, of course, you're hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.

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

There's so many ways to do stand up, and I think, for awhile, people weren't really maximizing the freedom of it. We were all kind of doing a similar kind of stand up, and I started to see some original voices come out of Boston.

I had some friends that tried it down there, and I went to a couple of open mics, and I just kind of got this... this sick urge to try it instead of just watching it.