Hannibal Buress Quotes

But with 'Newsrevue' I started doing some characters, and I just loved how you were in control. You could write something that day and go and do it that night, rather than waiting for a job that involves other people. So I did character stand-up, and then proper stand-up, and I loved it; I got addicted.

I always wanted to be a comedian, but I wasn't sure how you do that.

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

People who want to do stand-up from the start - I mean that's an extremely self-centred thing to want, isn't it?

I was always just like, 'Standups are making it up.' A lot of people have that myth about standup. And so it wasn't until I was in college for theater school in Boston that I realized I can actually start going to open mics and figuring this out.

A lot of comedy is really DIY. You're kind of doing it yourself.

I'm a comedian so I'm not waiting around for someone to write a part for me. I don't have to wait for somebody else to create my next job; I have the ability to basically write my own ticket.

When I was doing comedy in New York, before I was in movies, I was never known as the deadpan actress. I was just a comedienne.

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.

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.

The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do 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 was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

I think with animation there's a certain freedom that you're given. You don't have a thought at the back of your mind, that worry that you'll have to cut and go back to the top of the scene. You're not working with anyone else from the cast. It's just you.

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

Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.

I never knew if I would get my own show, but I knew I loved stand-up.

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

I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist.

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

I have the most fun writing and directing. And I always choose myself as the lead actor.

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

That is the true joy of being a solo artist. I can do whatever I want. I can go wherever I want. I can show up with my guitar and my song, and it can sound a hundred different ways. That's the freedom of being on your own. The flipside is: That's you on the cover. If it sucks, it's your fault.

I had the humble beginnings. I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.

When you are in control of what the final product is, there is kind of no limitation to what you feel like you can do because you know that if you don't like it, you can just cut it out.