Kathy Griffin Quotes

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

Once I started doing stand-up, everything fell into place. That was when I started acting more; I felt like I'd found my place in the business.

I think, first of all, you need to love what you're doing, and then this helps in the comedian for its part in everything-but the moment you enjoy what you're doing, you try to express yourself, to find your way, and every time is different, of course.

When I started stand-up, the people I admired most were the people who were the most themselves onstage.

Stand-up is my foundation. That's where it started at. And I love it because it's personal. It's mine. It's all me. It's my experience in life.

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

When I started, I was doing all the good comedians I'd ever seen. Then I developed my own voice. My routines are my natural way of looking at the world.

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 always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.

I would love to do more TV and do movies for the experience, but my ultimate focus is stand-up. It's the number one thing that I love most because there is nothing like being with a live audience.

All I know how to do is take what's on my mind and spit it out funny. I don't know what else I could do besides comedy.

Stand-up was my entree into the entertainment world. I didn't have to act out somebody else's words. I could just stand there with a microphone, and nobody would interrupt me. It's the most narcissistic thing you could probably do.

I got to a point where I wanted to have some dignity in what I'm saying onstage. I want people to hear what I'm saying, regardless of whether or not it gets a laugh. That became a lot more rewarding than straight acting could ever be for me.

If I want to be a real comedian, I can't let you dictate my material, so I started creating more new material.

Stand-up is cool. In stand-up, you get to learn about yourself if you do it from a thoughtful place.

I like stand-up. I've done it since I was a teenager, so it's kind of my first job and first kind of creative way to express myself.

I don't have any writers. I never get a laugh with somebody else's jokes. I can't do it justice.

I've been performing stand-up comedy for ten years, it's what I love and will always do.

When young comedians ask me for advice that's the one thing I always say is if they're improvisers I'm like do improv, don't make that your sole thing. And at the end of the day when you do your best work you also just kinda, by definition flush it down the toilet and never do it again.

My favorite comedians are basically themselves onstage.

One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There's so many things that I can not do in life, and this is, like, the one thing that I have mastery over. It's my world. And anybody who's coming to the show, it's like they're coming because they know that this is my world.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

When I used to watch comedians with my dad, he laid it all out for me. He wanted to be a comedian himself, and he was so funny. We'd watch stand-up on TV, and he'd tell me the subtext of what they were saying.

I think I have always tried to connect my comedy to my art.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.