Amy Schumer Quotes

Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wanted to. And so could I.

I'll never stop doing stand-up. There's nothing better than getting in front of 2,500 people and making an entire room laugh.

There is nothing more joyful to me than hearing a live audience laugh. Especially when I planned it that way!

I'll do anything to get the laugh. I love it.

It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.

I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.

Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it's my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers.

I lived to make Scott Baio laugh.

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

I did stand-up for my grandparents every day when I was, like, eight.

My job has always been to entertain people. I want people to laugh.

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

I've been a stand-up comedian for years, and I can be silly.

About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.

I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.

If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance.

To have a job making people laugh really is the greatest thing.

I love entertaining people and making them laugh. It's my favorite thing to do.

Oh, I love stand-up.

You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.

Live stand-up is my thing. I love being on stage and just messing around.

There's an art to comedy.

I've been making people laugh for 40 years, so I know how important it is!

My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.

I just try to deliver the laughs every time I get the opportunity.