Bobcat Goldthwait Quotes

Once I started doing stand-up, everything fell into place. That was when I started acting more; I felt like I'd found my place in the business.

I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.

My first love is doing my own comedy stuff.

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.

I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy.

I realize as I get older that stand-up is a huge part of who I am. I think I'll do it for the rest of my life.

I feel lucky that I can have people laugh solidly for a whole hour by just saying what I think and getting paid for it.

Stand-up. It's the only place I'm comfortable.

I became a stand-up because that was my survival.

Stand-up was my entree into the entertainment world. I didn't have to act out somebody else's words. I could just stand there with a microphone, and nobody would interrupt me. It's the most narcissistic thing you could probably do.

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

When I'm on stage, that's a job. It's acting, it's faking, just making fun of yourself, telling bad jokes - I'm pretty good in this - dancing, just to entertain.

I started standup at age nineteen. I decided that the only way I was going to try show business as a career was if I could make total strangers laugh.

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

I get to do comedy for a living.

I loved stand-up, but I never thought you could do it as a job.

One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There's so many things that I can not do in life, and this is, like, the one thing that I have mastery over. It's my world. And anybody who's coming to the show, it's like they're coming because they know that this is my world.

I never used to tell jokes on stage. Now I'm cutting up jokes all night long.

Some people use stand-up to get something else in their careers, but it's truly the art form of stand-up I love.

I never thought I'd end up doing comedy, but actually, it's been something I've really relished the challenge of and ended up doing quite a bit of.

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

I still do standup.

Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.