Roseanne Barr Quotes

Some people use stand-up to get something else in their careers, but it's truly the art form of stand-up I love.

Once I started doing stand-up, everything fell into place. That was when I started acting more; I felt like I'd found my place in the business.

I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.

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 started out being a stand up and writing my own material. That took me to 'Talk Soup,' where I was writing and performing for TV.

No, I never really set out to be a stand up. I wanted to be a writer of some sort. I thought I'd do a bit of stand up and hopefully that will lead to stuff and little did I know it kind of snowballed. Before I knew it I was doing stand up 300 nights a year.

A lot of people get into stand-up as a back door into acting or something. But I really like writing jokes and telling jokes.

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.

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

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

Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.

I prefer being known for my stand-up because I write it. I love being an actor, and saying other people's words is great. But then, when I do stand-up, I love getting my own point of view out there.

I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.

it is hard to find new jokes. What I need is new audiences.

I enjoy stand up so much because I take time off, and then I'll be excited to go back to it.

I became a stand-up because that was my survival.

Stand-up was my entree into the entertainment world. I didn't have to act out somebody else's words. I could just stand there with a microphone, and nobody would interrupt me. It's the most narcissistic thing you could probably do.

If I want to be a real comedian, I can't let you dictate my material, so I started creating more new material.

That's what comedy is like: You have to force yourself out in the world because you're always one experience away from new material.

I got into standup because I wanted to be an actor, and then I ended up loving standup for the next eleven years.

I just realized at a certain point that no matter how much writing I did, I'm still a gym rat for comedy clubs.

Doing comedy was liberating in a way.

I started mixing my real life stories into my stand-up, and on stage it's much more powerful.

Sometimes I start off shows by explaining to people that it's just a bunch of stories - I always say 'It's like standup, just less funny.'