Demetri Martin Quotes

Stand-up in general is the most raw form of entertainment. There is no pyrotechnics or back-up dancers, it's just live and die by your jokes, that's it.

I love writing stand-up so much and tinkering and looking for ideas.

I had always been heavily influenced by stand-up.

Stand-up comedy - I love this job, and I gotta tell you, folks - knock wood - it's been working. 'Cause I was one of those kind of people, even when I had a regular job, I couldn't even call in sick right. You know, I was like, 'Hello? Yeah, I can't come in today. I have scurvy.

When you're a young comedian the first thing you want to do is get a laugh.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I've been performing stand-up comedy for ten years, it's what I love and will always do.

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

Performing comedy, you develop a rhythm of ideas and laughs. I live for it.

I love stand-up. I look at it as a way to always stay productive. I couldn't imagine only being an actor or a writer. Because what the hell do I do when I'm not working? Mope?

Now, I think the people who are still doing stand-up are doing it because they love stand-up.

One of the reasons I still do stand-up is because it was so hard in the beginning that I feel like it would be such a shame not to redeem it that it's all fun.

Stand-up is the place where you can do things that you could never do in public.

I'm very lucky in that I've gotten to do a lot of things. But if you ever put a gun to my head and said, "You can only do one," I'd think it would be stand-up. I think it's the coolest job in the world.

What's great about stand-up unlike athletes and other things when you get old you get old and rusty.

I think stand-up comedy is this - it's this kind of indulgence and narcissism.

I've always had my voice as a comic. I was never that into politics, or prop comedy.

'Where's Bill going?' He's going to comedy death. Boom! He pops out of it with another joke. It's my particular style.

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.

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.