M. S. Narayana Quotes

I don't know that I'd be a comedian if I stayed in Canada.

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

If I had to design a career for myself, I would have done comedy.

I see myself as a comedian rather than a female comedian. I happen to be a woman, but I am a comedian by trade.

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

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.

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

I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I do, it's what I've been doing and it's what I'm going to keep doing.

I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn't see that as a job description anywhere.

I never really set out to be a comedian, but as a kid, I loved doing sketches and playing characters. And then a great friend kept telling me I should be a comedian, so I followed her advice and gave it a shot.

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

I worked as a comedian for 23 years, 51 weeks a year.

I was lucky enough to find stand-up really early in life. And I'm so grateful that I did, because the second I found it, I was like, 'I know what I want to do'.

I wanted to be a comedian long before I wanted to be a musician, for sure.

I never thought about 'being' in comedy when I grew up, because I didn't know it was a real job. But looking back, it's the only thing I ever really cared about.

Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.

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

I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.

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

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

But I love stand-up, and it's where I came from creatively, so it's something I never want to walk away from.

When I was, like, 15, I realized there could be a career in making people laugh - like, you could get paid to do it. That was insane to me.

At one point when I was very young, when I was first starting out, I thought, 'Well, one day I'll be able to put all the music away and become a real comedian.' But then I realized there are amazing musical comedians out there, that musical comedy is probably something I'll always want to pursue.