Sandra Bernhard Quotes

My act's not heavy on pop culture or stories, just lots of jokes.

I don't know what Tracy Morgan does onstage, but I can assure you, it's no act.

Stand-up is kind of like my home base, and doing stand-up in New York is what I like doing most.

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

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

I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.

I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy.

I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to create my own comedy. But I still love doing stand-up and will probably be doing it forever. I'd love to be an old guy who can't really walk, can't really stand-up, and I have to sit on the stool and tell jokes.

I graduated from Improv Olympic. I used to do standup comedy.

My first love is doing my own comedy stuff.

People who have heard of me have heard of me mostly through presenting and asked, 'Why have you gone into comedy?'

I still do standup.

My stand-up has a lot of performance in it, and I loved doing it so much that, after years, I put the idea of having a show on the back burner.

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.

I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.

Even when I lecture per se, I am a joke comedian, I can do the voices.

Theo does comedy now, and he's traveling around the country doing comedy, and I actually just saw him, he's from Louisiana, and I just saw him when I went home to visit my family in Louisiana. I saw his comedy show and he was brilliant.

When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'

Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

I've actually done a lot of comedy.

I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays.

I never thought I'd do comedy, ever, in a million years. I always thought comedy was just for fun - to me, the real stuff was the real dramatic stuff. Now I know it's all valuable. There's a real excitement, a good feeling when you can make people laugh.

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.