Jillian Bell Quotes

I am a comedian and I started in stand-up when I was 22.

I love doing comedy, I really do. It was perhaps my first love. And I think, as an actor, you're young and you do school plays and the reason you go 'I might do more of this' is because you make people laugh in a school play. You don't go and do Hamlet when you're nine and go: "I feel people were really moved out there!" You do a silly voice and everyone laughs and you go: "Ooh, that feels quite nice. I might make a life out of this!"

I love comedy and I hope I never stop doing it.

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 had a real passion for performing. I craved the attention. I was a goofy kid just like I am a goofy adult. So as soon as I got the bug of getting laughs and getting on stage I just couldn't stop.

I'm trying to be a comedian, you know?

I started performing as a stand-up comedian on my own in the mid-1990s.

I have no intention of retiring; I can't imagine not doing stand-up. That's where I started and where I'll be.

I really want to do comedy.

I started pursuing stand-up comedy in 12th grade.

Growing up, I loved comedy even before I knew that you could be a stand-up comedian.

Not necessarily in the beginning, thinking I would have a career in comedy, but I was always interested in making people laugh.

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 often say that ... I'm just involved in comedy, so I can be around it.

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

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

I like to do comedy. It's my real passion. I want to make people laugh.

I was always the class clown; I made my family laugh, and that was when I was always happiest. I grew up listening to stand-up comedians' albums and watching them on TV, on 'The Tonight Show' and Letterman.

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

My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.

I've actually done a lot of comedy.

I love comedy. Playing the underdog, and getting the laughs is my form of entertainment. I could think of nothing different that I would want to be doing at this time in my life.

I would like to get back to making people laugh. Before drama school, I did nothing but comedy.

I think it'd be a lot of fun to jump back into the comedy world.