Mark Billingham Quotes

Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.

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

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

Stand-up comedy is mine: it's my entity; it's my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.

I never thought I'd end up doing comedy, but actually, it's been something I've really relished the challenge of and ended up doing quite a bit of.

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

I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist.

Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.

I didn't become a comedian to work this hard.

Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it's hard to turn away. Then, of course, you're hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.

Maybe it's because I come from a very utopian world of being a comedian, but I'm used to many live comedy performances going on in any city I'm in, and each of us is trying to be the best at what we do. I don't think of it as a competition so much as a thriving comedy economy.

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

I realize as I get older that stand-up is a huge part of who I am. I think I'll do it for the rest of my life.

The minute I started doing comedy, the doors opened.

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

From the age of 14, I remember thinking I wanted to be a comedian. But that was like saying I wanted to be an astronaut. It felt like a million miles away, something I could never do, but would be great to.

The thing about stand-up is that you end up meeting your idols.

I love the comedy world and really grew up in green rooms, so I wanted to show the positives and negatives.

I loved stand-up, but I never thought you could do it as a job.

I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

I really admire stand-up, and I think I would have loved to learn how to do it. I think it's terrifying and thrilling. A really cool thing to do. It's a dying art, in a way.

I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians.

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.