Bill Engvall Quotes

I love standup, but not the grind of traveling and dealing with club owners.

The hiatus you spoke about happened in 1998. I was somewhat numb from being out on the road every night. I had to stop because I was emotionally and physically drained.

I'm so lucky to do what I do, traveling across the country and making people laugh.

I felt pressured by continuous touring.

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

I wasn't even sure I'd be able to walk. I couldn't even go outside. Maybe I was just burnt crisp from the gruelling schedule I had been keeping for years.

I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.

I was burned out. I think I was just exhausted. It was a very intense five years. We didn't stop. It was constant touring, constant writing, recording.

My touring has never stopped; from the time I started doing stand-up, I've been on the road.

I hate it when people slag us off. We had done three tours during 1970 and we finished off feeling we had just about had enough. We had done so much in that short space of time, we were drained.

I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.

There are days when I am just dead on the floor, and I'm there in my makeup, and that's getting a little tiring.

I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.

I was so in love with the idea of making people laugh for a living that I didn't care what I had to do to get there. Or how much money I was going to make when I did get there.

At the end of the day, the last thing I want to do is - well, anything. I just want to sleep. I crash out hard every day at 'Common Law.' I definitely lost a couple years of my life just on the fatigue factor on the first season.

I've been doing stand-up since I was 19. There have been times I've had to step away because of my schedule, but now I'm able to go out and do theaters and not smoky little bars.

As a stand-up comic, you have to do the road.

I did 100 concerts in 2010 and I had a bit of a burn out at the end of the year. I was absolutely exhausted and didn't want to do it any more.

Travel takes a toll on you.

When you get that tired, it becomes really challenging to keep bringing your best foot forward.

Talked my head off Worked my tail off Cried my eyes out Walked my feet off Sang my heat out So you see, There's really not much left of me.

Broadway is another monster. I've been touring since I was 12 years old and I love being on the road - one day you're here, next day it's snowing, and the next you are in a desert and it's 110 degrees. So I guess I'm kind of used to the madness physically that you go to when you are an entertainer. But it's been great.

I always wanted to be a stand-up comedian, even as a kid. Me and my dad would watch 'Evening at the Improv' on A&E.

I've done the big 12-city tours, and I'm never going to do that again - never. I was younger then. It wears you out, you know.

After six, seven films, I started to get a little tired. Shooting takes a lot out of you.