Tom Green Quotes

I always knew I wanted to do comedy. I like making people laugh. I started out young just making my family laugh and trying to make kids laugh in school and getting into plays. I think it's the only thing I know how to do so hopefully it works out.

I was always sort of a ham as a kid, just always wanting to entertain and to get people to laugh.

I knew already when I was seven years old, that I wanted to be on stage and entertain people. I sell laughs. Here, you got one for free!

The person who is most a part of me is the performer, is the standup, the guy who says, "Hey look at me, listen to this!" I do that because that's what I do, I love doing it.

I have no intention of retiring; I can't imagine not doing stand-up. That's where I started and where I'll be.

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

Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it's my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers.

I know I can get laughs anywhere, in front of any crowd, if I'm given the chance.

About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.

Everyone tells me I need to do comedy. It's never something that crossed my mind, but to be able to do a true comedy and make people laugh, that would be great.

I never want to give up stand-up. Because I still get a thrill out of it.

I'll never stop doing stand-up. There's nothing better than getting in front of 2,500 people and making an entire room laugh.

I feel more comfortable in comedy.

When I started doing my act, I wasn't married and didn't have kids. I was probably 29 years old. Some people say that's not a kid, but when you're 50, and you look back to when you were 30, you were a kid. You look back on your 30s and think, "I was an idiot!" But I would just do things then I thought were funny. I couldn't have cared less who thought anything about it.

The first time I got on stage I was 10 years old and I did impressions. I did cartoon characters and I really got the bug for this life when I saw that people were laughing and saw the attention I was getting.

People need the court jester, so I keep that smile on and keep going out there to do what I do.

To me, if you are in the same building with Peter Sellers or John Cleese, or any of those guys and holding your own making other people laugh, that's a compliment.

You gotta have the balls to go out there and be funny, man.

I think anybody in front of a crowd is a comedian.

I knew I just loved comedy, and I think it was my parents who initially brought up the notion of me trying to do stand-up. I think I actually tried writing jokes just at home, just kind of sitting around. But it seemed like a very real way to step into the world of comedy. I felt I could do it, so why not?

I've learned to have absolutely no regrets about any jokes I've ever done.

When I was a child, I wanted to watch things that made me laugh. It's attacking boredom, as simple as that. I was 19 when I first went to a comedy club - I wanted to do it, so I gave it a try and that was it. I found my office.

I'm trying to be a comedian, you know?

When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.

I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.