Ardal O'Hanlon Quotes

Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.

When I was at youth theatre and drama school, I never thought people would mistake me for a stand-up.

You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up.

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 doing stand-up since '89.

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.

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 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.

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

In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists.

I'm proud to say that I've never had a normal job. I started doing stand-up when I was in high school, purely as a measure to never get a proper job.

In a packed programme tonight, we will be talking to an out-of-work contortionist who says he can no longer make ends meet.

I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn't see that as a job description anywhere.

I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.

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'm set up where I make a lot of money doing stand-up, and it's easy.

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

I'll be doing stand-up for the rest of my life. The opportunities that it grants you can't be denied. Stand-up is both the hardest thing I do and the thing I enjoy most.

I have always been a comedian - that has always been my job and it is what I want to do for a long time to come.

I started doing stand-up when I was 16, my junior year in high school. My two friends and I would sit at home watching stand-up. They kept saying I should try it, and so I did.

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

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.