Marc Maron Quotes

I just wanted to be in show biz. I wanted to make music and sing and dance, tell jokes and stories, make ya smile, make ya cry - and charge you $ 8.50

I always wanted to be a performer, I didn't know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.

I sat down and wrote some jokes and went to the talent show, got up on stage, fell in love with it and never turned back.

It's a lot of work to put a brand-new monologue and a brand-new show on the air and find comedy every single day. It's challenging and it's the hardest thing I have ever done, but it's the best-suited thing for me. The more relaxed I get and the more confident I feel, the more I get to play and be myself...

Performing to me is the most vital, most important. It's my favorite part of all of it. I just want to be on stage.

- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it. + Then you shouldn't be a writer.

I hope to make acting my career for the rest of my life, if I can. If acting doesn't work out, I'd love to produce or direct or write. I just want to stay in this business, definitely. That would be my number one thing. I always want to be an actress.

Years of my life were lived knowing that I'd get a book out of them one day.

When I was little, I had to write down what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I wrote, 'I want to be an actress-singer-dancer because you can be a rich fairy princess and tell someone off.'

Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.

If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.

I wanted to do screenwriting. That's what I went to school for, but my major was overfilled, and when I got 'The Daily Show', I was a semester away from officially starting my major, so I never started that in particular.

A part of me always wanted to be an actor.

My dream job is definitely to be an actor/director/writer, all three.

Ok so there's no TV shows, no movies going on fine, but I love going on stage and performing stand up so my situation is a little better than someone who's strictly just an actor or actress.

I love performing. I'll never get that out of me.

I love being in a show. I love the community aspect of it. I like the discipline of it, too.

I became an entertainer not because I wanted to but because I was meant to.

Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of how much of this is your life. The story is a way you unravel your life from behind a mask.

I have passion for music just like I have passion for wrestling, just like I have passion for creating and acting.

When you're a comic, it's like being born gay. It's what you want to do every night when your other friends are out at night going to parties.

It's good to do stand-up. It kind of wakes you up and makes you feel like you're doing something. You got the crowd right there. That's all fun.

Once you've gotten used to performing, you can't give it up.

All I've ever wanted to do is entertain people - make them laugh, think, smile, feel creeped out or scared; whatever it is. I'm getting the opportunity to do that in various roles.

For the most part, comedy is the only fair part of show business.