Katherine Ryan Quotes

From the very beginning I knew I had to be a comedian, and thus preferred being one.

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

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

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

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

I've been a comedian since I was fourteen. But I've never really been a CEO.

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 never wanted to be road comic.

I realize as I get older that stand-up is a huge part of who I am. I think I'll do it for the rest of my life.

If I'm not in the theatre, I'm in an open mic night or doing a guest set at the Comedy Club, or whatever, just trying to develop stuff.

I think I probably would have gone into stand-up.

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

I don't write anything. It's all done onstage, which is why I always tell younger comics that they just have to go do it. You have to get up, talk, and take a thought or a word and just expound, and you find it in there. I don't sit down and write.

I love the comedy world and really grew up in green rooms, so I wanted to show the positives and negatives.

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

I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

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.