Aubrey Plaza Quotes

My background is all comedy. I've been doing improv since I was 17. It's funny, because when I meet people, I'm known as this guy who will punch you in the face or throw you out a window, when I also have a background in comedy.

I grew up watching Letterman, 'Seinfeld,' 'SNL,' and Monty Python movies. But nothing made me want to get into comedy more than when 'Mr. Show' started airing.

For me to make a living acting silly for as long as I can get away with it, I think the most viable way to make that happen is to evolve into more traditional comedy. I've really been putting in the work.

I remember 'Def Comedy Jam' being a big deal and kids talking about it in school, but it was never, 'I want to do that.'

I mean, I guess I started during the comedy boom, so it was literally like, on Sunday you could decide you wanted to be a comic, and on Monday, you could be on stage.

My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.

I would like to get back to making people laugh. Before drama school, I did nothing but comedy.

I started comedy as a hobby, really, and it still doesn't seem like a proper job.

I kind of knew inside that I wanted to try comedy, but it was a mystery. How do you start? So when I hit 30 and I had done everything I wanted to do in journalism, so I went to a comedy class. I figured I'd learn how to do five minutes and see how it feels.

I'm a student of Comedy Central. It launched careers: Wanda Sykes and even Kevin Hart. The first time I was introduced to him, he was on Comedy Central. It puts you on the map... Hollywood knows now.

I never really thought of comedy as a career. My goal was, when I moved to New York, I was going to write serious films.

I've never done stand-up in my life. I don't know if that's entirely interesting, but I came up in improv.

I'm not a comedian. I didn't study sketch comedy; my background isn't that.

I call myself a comic.But I started as an actress. I did plays since I was 5.

I love comedy. If I could be a comedian - well, I probably would not take that job because it seems really hard, but I wish I could be.

I think comics in New York are interested in being comics. And there're comics in L.A. who are touring comics, who are certainly more interested in stand-up, but a lot of L.A. stand-ups are really looking to do something else.

I want to do more comedy... I've done a couple TV shows that had some comedy going on.

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

I really like to do comedy, and I did comedy the first 2 years after I graduated college, so I really love it and appreciate it.

When I started out in comedy, it was common knowledge that it took about 10 years to get good. And that was okay because it took you about 9 years to get on television.

Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.

I grew up loving David Letterman and Pee-wee Herman, but as far as live performance comedy, all I knew were the Jerry Seinfeld-type comedians of the world, and that's what I thought live performance comedy was all about.

I started in the club route. I did the alternative scene later on. When I lived in New York, I did the Luna Lounge and stuff, where Janeane Garofalo and David Cross and all those guys worked out of, but I came from a comedy club background. I'm proud of that background. I'm one of the people that really crossed over and did both.

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

When I was, like, 15, I realized there could be a career in making people laugh - like, you could get paid to do it. That was insane to me.