Dave Attell Quotes

As a kid, I always wanted to be Carol Burnett or Johnny Carson. I love to chat and entertain.

In Manhattan, I often do two or three or more shows a night, so I'm always working on new material.

Yeah, I do stand-up, my own type of stand-up.

I've always been an actor, even when I was doing improv and my own version of stand up.

I like doing stand-up and I love putting out TV specials. I'm not an actor though, so I don't really have much choice in the matter.

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

I feel really grateful that I am in comedy, and I love doing it.

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

I love comedy. God has given me this platform.

I like doing a funny show where I don't have to act and fall in love with a girl.

I wish I had a really cool, esoteric answer, but what the process is to me is going onstage night after night after night after night until I get a new hour. And then once that hour is solidified and recorded, I move on.

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

I love stand up and it keeps me grounded, to say the stuff I have been thinking without anyone changing it.

Um, I'm just naturally super-funny. No, not really. I've never been in The Groundlings or anything.

I love Steven Wright. I was in high school in the '80s, and there was a lot of stand up on television.

I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.

I love 'Saturday Night Live,' and it's such a funny show. I don't know if I'm funny enough to be on it but definitely would be interested in doing it.

I got into stand-up to get on a sitcom.

Larry David makes me laugh.

Comedy is my first love; that's my main goal in life - to keep doing comedy.

When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that.

I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.

I love physical comedy. I adore comedy of any kind.

I love standup and I haven't given it up.

I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays.