Pete Holmes Quotes

There are these showcase clubs where 14 guys will go on in a row and people are laughing at everything, and I'm like - 'I can't laugh that much. That's so weird to me.'

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

I wanted to be a comedian.

When you have an entire amphitheatre of people laughing that way, it makes you feel so funny and it frees you to go further than you probably would.

I still love to walk on stage and make people laugh, and I work very, very hard at it, and I take it seriously.

Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people laugh and make them happy.

I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives.

I don't care about how I look; I'm dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so - my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I had, all my training is geared toward making people laugh, and I didn't care about being cool.

I'm always trying to make myself laugh. I'm the most enthusiastic audience I'm likely to find, so if it doesn't make me smile then it probably won't work on you. The jokes that only make me shrug get cut.

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.

I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh.

I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.

About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.

Kind of the exhausting thing about doing pure comedy, or something that's broader, is you're kind of a slave to the laugh. If it's not funny, then there's not much point in doing it. The kind of ueber-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, 'Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny.'

Most comics worship music on some level. It's more rock-n-roll to get up there for an hour and make people laugh.

You write what makes you laugh, and you hope that the audience agree, and so far they do.

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. I've got no plans to stop doing it.

My younger sister's a comedian. She has a sketch comedy group in Chicago called Schadenfreude and I look at her with such admiration and envy because it's such an amazing thing to make someone laugh.

I sometimes use a girl singer the way Henny Youngman uses his violin - as a bridge between one laugh and the next.

I go where people are hurting. I stand on the stage, and I make people laugh for an hour and a half.

Everyone knows the feeling where you're in the pub and you make your mates laugh. It's awesome, you feel like you rock. That's what comedians want with a bit of extra ego.