Phoebe Robinson Quotes

Comedy. I think that's something I'd really like to do.

I want to do more comedy... I've done a couple TV shows that had some comedy going on.

I really like to do comedy, and I did comedy the first 2 years after I graduated college, so I really love it and appreciate it.

Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.

I have always wanted to do comedy.

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

When I was doing comedy in New York, before I was in movies, I was never known as the deadpan actress. I was just a comedienne.

I like comedy. I would love to do comedy for a long time.

Comedy is what I really want to do and propel.

I'm doing comedy development at National Lampoon.

I wasn't funny as a kid. I remember enjoying comedians, but I never understood it was a job choice or a profession.

I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

Something about New York, man: You can do more comedy there probably than you can anywhere in the world. If you're interested in being funny, New York is the place to go.

I would like to get back to making people laugh. Before drama school, I did nothing but comedy.

I was always silly in high school. I used to always get in trouble because I was laughing. I've always thought I was funny but never thought I could use it to make money. In 1996, I decided I was going to use my humor to get on TV to make money.

I've always wanted to work in comedy.

I'd like to try comedy, at some point, but no one ever hires me for comedy, ever.

I knew at an early age that I wanted to pursue comedy.

I wanted to be a director and comedian and my plan was to go to NYU. I wanted to be in UCB.

I didn't have any plan to go into comedy.

Comedy is my proper job. It's what I should be doing, and when I do other bits like my science series, I miss it.

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 think comedy is difficult, and I'm amazed so many people want to do it. I'll be buying jeans and somebody will say, "I'm a comedian" - the guy selling you the jeans. The desire to be a comedian is weird. I found it weird myself to want to be one; I was a schoolboy when I wanted to be one but I didn't know how to do it. That was 50 years ago, so times have changed greatly. There seems to be a long line of people desperate to do it and most of them are quite good.

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!"