Steve Harvey Quotes

I started stand-up in 2007. I'd done a couple of gigs before that, but not much, and I was in a sketch group at Uni from 2005 as well.

I never want to give up stand-up. Because I still get a thrill out of it.

I'm trying to be a comedian, you know?

I started performing as a stand-up comedian on my own in the mid-1990s.

Some people use stand-up to get something else in their careers, but it's truly the art form of stand-up I love.

Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.

I never knew if I would get my own show, but I knew I loved stand-up.

I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.

I have a feeling I'm going to wake up one day and say 'I can't do dirty stuff anymore, I want to go all clean.' I'll do clean stuff too, I like to entertain people. Then they egged me on; we shot it at The Laugh Factory.

I have no intention of retiring; I can't imagine not doing stand-up. That's where I started and where I'll be.

I wasn't planning on being a comedian; I just liked to laugh. Somebody said I should do it and that's how I started.

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.

Everyone tells me I need to do comedy. It's never something that crossed my mind, but to be able to do a true comedy and make people laugh, that would be great.

I wanted to be a comedian. And I did that so much in high school, I couldn't get a girlfriend.

I always wanted to be a popular comedian.

I worked as a comedian for 23 years, 51 weeks a year.

I started pursuing stand-up comedy in 12th grade.

I am a comedian and I started in stand-up when I was 22.

I always knew I wanted to do comedy. I like making people laugh. I started out young just making my family laugh and trying to make kids laugh in school and getting into plays. I think it's the only thing I know how to do so hopefully it works out.

I'm traveling the world, ripping rooms apart with my stupendous comedy.

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.

When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.

I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.

I'm doing a lot of stand-up, but not like when you're living in New York and you can do three sets a night and it's your life, and you sleep all day and you wake up and you eat with a bunch of other comics and then get ready for the night.

Stand-up was like being on a Barbie townhouse stage.