Steven Wright Quotes

It's fun to do something funny and have the director laughing. It makes you feel good.

My job has always been to entertain people. I want people to laugh.

The first time I ever did a play, in junior high school, I said to myself, 'Hey, people like me doing this. I'm making them laugh.'

You can't substitute the act of making people laugh. It's definitely something that actors like to do.

I love standing at a microphone and making a room of people laugh. That's the part of the work I love; everything else is extraneous.

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've never had a Plan B. I've just always wanted to make people laugh, that's it.

I really, really love stand-up.

Probably the most fun thing we do in our lives is getting up on stage.

I was always an entertainer.

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

I just love to make a whole roomful of people laugh.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

For comedy, timing is key.

It's good to be funny when you are a comedian.

I lived to make Scott Baio laugh.

If I'm doing something on stage, and it evokes an emotion, then I might show that emotion, but I also don't believe in being a preacher. If you have a point, that's a bonus. But the funny has to come first; otherwise, you shouldn't call yourself a comedian.

I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.

All the world loves a clown.

If you had of told me age 10 that in 19 years time I would be on a stage in Salford performing with Les Dennis in a sitcom I had written, I would have believed you.

There are two reasons why I'm in show business, and I'm standing on both of them.

I'll do anything to get the laugh. I love it.

I love doing comedy. It's a lot of fun.

I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.

Kind of the exhausting thing about doing pure comedy, or something that's broader, is you're kind of a slave to the laugh. If it's not funny, then there's not much point in doing it. The kind of ueber-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, 'Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny.'