Cedric the Entertainer Quotes

Doing comedy was liberating in a way.

When I got on Stern I realized that this was the one job where you could be really honest and open, almost like Richard Pryor or something. You can be honest about your life and get laughs.

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

All I know how to do is take what's on my mind and spit it out funny. I don't know what else I could do besides comedy.

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

I like doing stand-up and I love putting out TV specials.

I can say whatever it is that I feel.

I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don't have any secrets. I don't know the reasons I've been so well received.

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 prefer being known for my stand-up because I write it. I love being an actor, and saying other people's words is great. But then, when I do stand-up, I love getting my own point of view out there.

I love comedy. Playing the underdog, and getting the laughs is my form of entertainment. I could think of nothing different that I would want to be doing at this time in my life.

When I was doing stand-up, there were a lot of things I talked about that seemed very silly but were therapeutic.

Acting gives you freedom to express your thoughts.

I love doing stand up. I think it's a really worthwhile art form. It's so unique in all the things it combines, in terms of it being philosophizing, preaching, speaking truth to power and basic communicating. It's a good way to talk back to the world.

I like stand-up. I've done it since I was a teenager, so it's kind of my first job and first kind of creative way to express myself.

I really like doing stand-up, because it gives you an immense amount of freedom. You haven't got anyone telling you what to do. It's great to have that much power over what you do. You don't have that in television.

If people are coming to see me because they like what I do on 'Mock the Week,' that's great because they are coming to see me being me.

I don't have any writers. I never get a laugh with somebody else's jokes. I can't do it justice.

When you do stand-up, it's so autonomous: I can say anything.

I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience.

I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing.

Stand-up is my foundation. That's where it started at. And I love it because it's personal. It's mine. It's all me. It's my experience in life.

You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.

Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.

I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.