Taylor Momsen Quotes

I used to think of myself as a comedian. I've always admired comedians. Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There's a liberation in that.

I've always loved comedy and growing up it was the comedies that I really responded to. So I don't know how it turned out that once I started acting that I started getting a certain kind of role, that I never saw myself as growing up, so I really love when I get an opportunity to play a [comedian] role.

I just loved comedy as a kid and I think at some point, it just occurred to me that you could try it, and I did.

I really wanted to, but I just didn't understand how people became comedians. I kind of thought it was something you were born into. And so I wanted to be a veterinarian or an architect. I wanted to be in a band, and for some reason I could understand how you could be in a band because I had guitars and all my friends played music. Comedy was a secret want, but it wasn't anything I pursued.

As long as I get to be doing what I love, which is making comedy and that kind of thing, I feel lucky that I get to.

I just respected comedians whether they were or they weren't, from, you know, new or old.

I'm a comedian so I'm not waiting around for someone to write a part for me. I don't have to wait for somebody else to create my next job; I have the ability to basically write my own ticket.

I love comedy and I hope I never stop doing it.

I've spent the last few years just really actively pursuing comedy and that's something I always wanted to know how to do.

I think I'm not uber into the comedy scene, but I love to laugh, especially in our business, where you're always front and center over an extremely, sometimes overly-critical live audience. I think it helps to laugh.

Comedy started out as my hobby and then it became my profession. It's like being on call all the time, like having a built-in beeper. You can't just leave the office and relax because you never know when you'll think of something funny.

I'm not a comedian. I didn't study sketch comedy; my background isn't that.

We live in a fun time with so many ways to express yourself, you would be crazy to be a comedian and not check them all out.

I didn't really get into comedy until a couple months before I started doing comedy.

There are tons of things I'd love to do. I want to do comedy. It's not that I don't want to play a superhero, but I got to play Conan and Drogo.

I was voted Most Humorous in my senior class in high school, and I was a fan of comedy, my whole life. I never got into the horror genre, and action was fine, but I just loved comedy. Any comedy I could get my hands on, I would. I watched Saturday Night Live religiously. I've just been a fan of comedy, my whole life.

I like to read, but otherwise I'm just your average, self-obsessed comedian. It's pretty much all I think about.

I'd love to do comedy. I'd probably have to get my laughing fits in check, because generally if I've done comedy, I'm usually the straight character that plays against the very obviously funny character, so that's really hard when the person is really hilarious.

Comedy is just complaining in an entertaining way, Enterplaining.

Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.

Comedy is not my world. It's difficult for me, but sometimes you just have to go with it and have a good time.

I've not really been angling to be a comedian. I knew comics and I loved them and I loved being funny, but I didn't understand the whole concept of becoming one. My first couple of times on stage, I was like, "This is what I'm doing for sure." I was so excited.

I love doing comedy, I really do. It was perhaps my first love. And I think, as an actor, you're young and you do school plays and the reason you go 'I might do more of this' is because you make people laugh in a school play. You don't go and do Hamlet when you're nine and go: "I feel people were really moved out there!" You do a silly voice and everyone laughs and you go: "Ooh, that feels quite nice. I might make a life out of this!"

I always loved comedy, but it never seemed like something that I could do professionally.

I grew up watching comedy. It was among all the geeky things that I did.