Julian Barratt Quotes

I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.

I always wanted to be a comedian, but I wasn't sure how you do that.

I've been a comedian since I was fourteen. But I've never really been a CEO.

I spent 25 years as a stand-up comedian.

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

I never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it.

I was born. When I was 23 I started telling jokes. Then I started going on television and doing films. That's still what I am doing. The end.

I always wanted to be a comedian and actor.

I did years of summer stock. I sort of only wanted to be an actor. And then at 19, I was funny, and I had some of these bits that I did for friends, and I immediately could get on television.

I worked as a comedian for 23 years, 51 weeks a year.

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

I don't know that I'd be a comedian if I stayed in Canada.

I started comedy in 2006. I didn't even think it was a thing I could do.

I have always been a comedian - that has always been my job and it is what I want to do for a long time to come.

No, I never really set out to be a stand up. I wanted to be a writer of some sort. I thought I'd do a bit of stand up and hopefully that will lead to stuff and little did I know it kind of snowballed. Before I knew it I was doing stand up 300 nights a year.

I never thought about 'being' in comedy when I grew up, because I didn't know it was a real job. But looking back, it's the only thing I ever really cared about.

I first started as an actor, but there was no money in it, which is why I drifted into comedy.

I'm interested in doing some acting in the future, but it's a distant second to stand up.

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.

If I had to design a career for myself, I would have done comedy.

That is the thing I'm most grateful for in this industry to be able to spin in those different mediums, with television, film and the stage - at this stage of the game.

Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting.

I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

I got into comedy so I could stay out all night.

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