Comedic Profession Quotes

As soon as I realized you could be funny as a job, that was the job I wanted.

I worked as a comedian for 23 years, 51 weeks a year.

Interesting-looking people have always been comedians, and it's rare that someone who has the choice to model ends up being a comic. Except for maybe Whitney Cummings, but that's about it. That's why she's special: because she can combine it.

I'm just going to keep doing comedy because I don't know what else to do. I have no other applicable skills.

I'm in this for the long haul, I want to be doing this until I die. I am a standup comedian. I know a lot of people say I'm not, but I am.

I'm a physical comedian first - and I'm a woman before that.

There's a reason I'm a stand-up comedian. I think there may be some laziness inherent in that job. It's the four-hour work week, on some level. I mean, I work at it, but it's not that kind of... it's just not the hours at all. So I was extremely grateful for the job. It was super, super fun, and I'm surprised that I made it.

I feel like comedy is only respected on the highest level, and on every other level, it's like a joke, like, 'Ugh - comedian,' you know?

I liked comedy, but didn't know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney.