Neal Brennan Quotes

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

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

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

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

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.

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

At the end of the day, I do think I'm happiest doing comedy. I love it. I know that I can do other things. I love drama as well.

I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.

I knew at an early age that I wanted to pursue comedy.

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

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

I like stand-up. I've done it since I was a teenager, so it's kind of my first job and first kind of creative way to express myself.

I get to do comedy for a living.

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've been doing comedy for 20 years now. I started when I was 13 and I think for the first 10 years I was impersonating other people.

Comedians really are like a species. That's not to be exclusive. Anyone can kind of become one. You have to pay your dues, though.

I have always wanted to do comedy.

I've never written jokes. I mean, I'll write things on a piece of paper and riff on them onstage.

You're always on duty because you're in a constant state of observation. That's one of the challenges of being a comedian. I think one of the other challenges is that, whether we like it or not, it's a profession that requires failure. It doesn't just encourage failure. It requires it because it's all trial and error. You need to know what doesn't work to know what works.

When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism... What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people laugh. I was a few years out of college before I felt I had enough material. Then in 1988 I moved to L.A. and started to do some shows at comedy clubs.

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

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.

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

Comedy is what I really want to do and propel.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.