Russell Peters Quotes

I love doing [stand-up]. I love making people laugh no matter how. Whether it's a commercial, or a TV show, or a reality show, or a talk show, or a special, or a book. However I can make people laugh, that's what I want to do.

Stand-up is my baby.

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

Comedy is my passion. I'm going to do this until I drop.

When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection, the high notes of a joke. It's all melody to me.

I had always been heavily influenced by stand-up.

Stand-up comedy - I love this job, and I gotta tell you, folks - knock wood - it's been working. 'Cause I was one of those kind of people, even when I had a regular job, I couldn't even call in sick right. You know, I was like, 'Hello? Yeah, I can't come in today. I have scurvy.

I love writing stand-up so much and tinkering and looking for ideas.

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

Comedy is what I really want to do and propel.

Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry, and then people thought I was funny, so I ran with it.

My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.

You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.

I became a dancer in self-defense. I was doing a comedy monologue and didn't know how else to get off, so I danced off. I've been dancing ever since, but I'm still a comedian.

I was an extroverted kid and performed, like, acting and singing. Then, the older I got, I realized I enjoyed performing things that I came up with myself more and I enjoyed making people laugh more than making people cry or think.

Competition is all in numbers; it's a numbers game, but I looked at it like it's a passion, and it's art.

Stand-up comedy is the most relaxing thing I do. If I want to unwind and de-stress, I go out and do stand-up, often several shows in a night.

Doing comedy is still in my veins; that's my first love.

At the end of the day, I do think I'm happiest doing comedy. I love it. I know that I can do other things. I love drama as well.

I love making comedy. I never stopped loving it. I will continue to love it and I can't believe that I get to do it.

A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.

I love acting and I have a need to do it, even when the business is down.

I suppose comedy is my first love, in a way.

Acting is something I've done since I was six years old, performing for my mum and my family in the living room, and I do it because my heart's in it.

I love acting. I just love it. It's in my bones.