Judy Gold Quotes

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

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

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 doing stand-up since '89.

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.

Little did I know that earning a living at stand-up is the hardest thing you can do. But once I started doing it, I just loved it, and I realized that I was actually kinda good at it, and then that was it.

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 feel lucky that I can have people laugh solidly for a whole hour by just saying what I think and getting paid for it.

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.

My first love is doing my own comedy stuff.

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

A lot of people get into stand-up as a back door into acting or something. But I really like writing jokes and telling jokes.

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.

When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism... What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people laugh. I was a few years out of college before I felt I had enough material. Then in 1988 I moved to L.A. and started to do some shows at comedy clubs.

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.

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

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

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.

But I love stand-up, and it's where I came from creatively, so it's something I never want to walk away from.

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

Stand-up is the foundation to my career. It's what I started out doing.

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

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 never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it.