Kevin Nealon Quotes

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

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'm probably more of a stand-up comedian than an actor.

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.

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

I started comedy in 2006. I didn't even think it was a thing I could do.

I have always been a comedian - that has always been my job and it is what I want to do for a long time to come.

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 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.

I never knew if I would get my own show, but I knew I loved stand-up.

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.

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 was, like, 15, I realized there could be a career in making people laugh - like, you could get paid to do it. That was insane to me.

To tell you the truth, I always wanted to be a sketch comedian and a comedy actor.

25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene.

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

I never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it.

When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.

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

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.

Basically I wanted to be a male comedian; those were my idols.

I come from a much freer kind of performance thing, where I rely on my own improv and my own sense of humor.

I worked as a comedian for 23 years, 51 weeks a year.