Iliza Shlesinger Quotes

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

I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.

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

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

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.

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

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

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 don't do stand-up anymore.

I know I'm going to be doing standup for the rest of my life.

I really like to do comedy, and I did comedy the first 2 years after I graduated college, so I really love it and appreciate it.

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

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

I never thought I'd end up doing comedy, but actually, it's been something I've really relished the challenge of and ended up doing quite a bit of.

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.

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

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.

Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.

I never wanted to be road comic.

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

I had some friends that tried it down there, and I went to a couple of open mics, and I just kind of got this... this sick urge to try it instead of just watching it.

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

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.