Adam DeVine Quotes

There are a lot of great jokes you can sit down and write, but that's just a written joke, versus the comedy of the situation. Ideally, you're pulling as much comedy out of the situation as you can.

I got into comedy because I wanted to get into writing.

I'm not a comedy writer, I'm a comedian, so I only write stuff that I would want to say.

If you can't write your own material, you have very little chance of making it as a comedian.

When I began doing theatre in high school I saw that I could get laughs from people but I didn't really connect that to going on and becoming a comedian. I was interested in acting and while I was at Boston College I was part of an improv group, Mother's Fleabag, which had a long history and has been known as one of the best college improvisation groups in the U.S.

I like to read, but otherwise I'm just your average, self-obsessed comedian. It's pretty much all I think about.

I think both of us [ with Steve Oram], once we decided to do comedy, knew that we would have to come to London to do that.

In the U.K. I'm probably better known as a comedy writer - or certainly that's my background is in writing comedy.

I really wanted to, but I just didn't understand how people became comedians. I kind of thought it was something you were born into. And so I wanted to be a veterinarian or an architect. I wanted to be in a band, and for some reason I could understand how you could be in a band because I had guitars and all my friends played music. Comedy was a secret want, but it wasn't anything I pursued.

I always loved comedy, but it never seemed like something that I could do professionally.

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.

Doing comedy is as easy as doing anything else. You're dependent totally on the material.

I think my goal was just to do comedy, honestly. It still is. Whatever form that took or takes, it doesn't matter.

I have a feeling I'm going to wake up one day and say 'I can't do dirty stuff anymore, I want to go all clean.' I'll do clean stuff too, I like to entertain people. Then they egged me on; we shot it at The Laugh Factory.

I wrote comedy sketches in college.

I wasn't planning on being a comedian; I just liked to laugh. Somebody said I should do it and that's how I started.

Everyone tells me I need to do comedy. It's never something that crossed my mind, but to be able to do a true comedy and make people laugh, that would be great.

I never planned to be a comedian. I don't consider myself one now.

I knew at an early age that I wanted to pursue comedy.

I have always wanted to do comedy.

And writing comedy and it really taught me how to kind of like craft jokes, it sounds like weird but really focus on crafting jokes and trying to make the writing really sharp. At the same time I did improv comedy in college, and that helped with understanding the performance aspect of comedy, you know, because it's different when you improv something vs. when you write it and they're both kind of part of my process now.

I just want to continue to do comedy. Comedy, I'm discovering, is my niche. It's what I'm born to do, so I would love to have my own sitcom one day in the future.

At first I had no skills in writing comedy. I didn't know what a joke was, but, as someone once told me, your emotions follow your intent. If you create the intention of starting a comedy act, slowly your mind starts adjusting and you arrive at a new emotional state.

I've spent the last few years just really actively pursuing comedy and that's something I always wanted to know how to do.

I think comedy is the most difficult thing in the world, I really do.