Arthur Smith Quotes

I haven't seen comedy as popular as it is now since when I started, in the late 1980s boom. It feels like that again, in that it's everywhere, and it's great to see.

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

I've been trying to bust into the comedy business my whole life. It's hard in Hollywood to do different things. I know this. It's a struggle.

I really have a love for comedy. I can't express it enough.

I think I'm not uber into the comedy scene, but I love to laugh, especially in our business, where you're always front and center over an extremely, sometimes overly-critical live audience. I think it helps to laugh.

Comedians rarely have writers, and if you do it's usually a sign of laziness.

I didn't really get into comedy until a couple months before I started doing comedy.

Comedy - and I say this with humility - comedy needs me.

I think comedy is difficult, and I'm amazed so many people want to do it. I'll be buying jeans and somebody will say, "I'm a comedian" - the guy selling you the jeans. The desire to be a comedian is weird. I found it weird myself to want to be one; I was a schoolboy when I wanted to be one but I didn't know how to do it. That was 50 years ago, so times have changed greatly. There seems to be a long line of people desperate to do it and most of them are quite good.

For the most part, comedy is the only fair part of show business.

I have to make good things so good comedians want to talk to me.

I'm friends with a lot of comedians, but we don't talk about material. Most comedians I know don't watch a lot of other comedy.

Comedy is just complaining in an entertaining way, Enterplaining.

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've not really been angling to be a comedian. I knew comics and I loved them and I loved being funny, but I didn't understand the whole concept of becoming one. My first couple of times on stage, I was like, "This is what I'm doing for sure." I was so excited.

All of my life doing interviews, comedy has been my favorite thing, comedians are my favorite people.

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.

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

We all know showbiz isn't easy, but being a comic - especially being a female comic - can be quite punishing.

I'm probably more of a stand-up comedian than an actor.

If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.

I love comedy; I'm super passionate about it, and thank God it's super in right now to have female empowered comedies.

It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.

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.

I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.