Jermaine Fowler Quotes

If you haven't truly died a million times as a comic you haven't gigged enough!

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

I just always loved comedy and I really wanted to be good at it. And it was heartbreaking, 'cause I started and I wasn't good at it. I was only 17-years-old, so I had a lot to learn about life in general. But I just kept on trying. I was young enough and stupid enough and I had no other choice. I had nothing else I was good at.

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

I've been doing stand-up since '89.

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

I adore doing comedy, I think it's fantastic. I never saw myself doing exclusively comedy.

When you do comedy, you get impervious to good and bad reviews.

I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw 'How to be a Stand-up Comedian,' it resonated. I realized I'd rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.

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.

I'd love to get into some comedy, but people keep saying, 'You're not funny!' And I say, 'Well, fair enough.' I have done comedy on stage.

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

I never thought I'd do comedy, ever, in a million years. I always thought comedy was just for fun - to me, the real stuff was the real dramatic stuff. Now I know it's all valuable. There's a real excitement, a good feeling when you can make people laugh.

I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy.

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.

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

I've always been a fan of comedy. I've always enjoyed it. It's something I'm very passionate about; it's like lifeblood to me. I had to pursue it. I thought I had a little bit of talent, and if I could make a living at it, I would do it. It's worked out so far.

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

More and more, I find that I love doing comedies; that instant gratification that you get on stage when they laugh at you feels really good.

People who have heard of me have heard of me mostly through presenting and asked, 'Why have you gone into comedy?'

I've been entertaining men with my comedy for many, many years, and I don't plan on stopping.

I have always wanted to do comedy.

I started as a ventriloquist, a very bad ventriloquist. And people saw my lips moving and it was ridiculous, so finally I decided I'd better change my occupation.

One of the reasons I still do stand-up is because it was so hard in the beginning that I feel like it would be such a shame not to redeem it that it's all fun.

You're always on duty because you're in a constant state of observation. That's one of the challenges of being a comedian. I think one of the other challenges is that, whether we like it or not, it's a profession that requires failure. It doesn't just encourage failure. It requires it because it's all trial and error. You need to know what doesn't work to know what works.