David Copperfield Quotes

I was an actor before becoming a comedian.

I love stand-up. I look at it as a way to always stay productive. I couldn't imagine only being an actor or a writer. Because what the hell do I do when I'm not working? Mope?

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.

I find what I do for a living really funny. I mean, acting is kind of a hilarious thing for a grown man to call a job.

I never used to tell jokes on stage. Now I'm cutting up jokes all night long.

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

Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy, and then toiled in obscurity for years.

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 don't know what Tracy Morgan does onstage, but I can assure you, it's no act.

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 do comedy shows. I make fun of myself, first of all.

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

Being a rapper is about being cool, but being a comedian, you're not supposed to be the coolest guy.

An 'insult comic' is the title I was given. What I do is exaggeration. I make fun of people, at life, of myself and my surroundings.

I come from a much freer kind of performance thing, where I rely on my own improv and my own sense of humor.

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

I graduated from Improv Olympic. I used to do standup comedy.

I'm used to sort of improvising a lot when I do my comedies.

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

I probably wouldn't have pursued comedy further if my friends didn't tell me that my getting kicked off the stage was the funniest thing they'd ever seen.

I don't do stand-up anymore.

The whole time that I was doing the voice of Korra, I would always joke around saying that nobody's gonna give me a job as an action star or a hero. I just do silly comedy.

I'm in awe of comedians that do things that I can't do, whether it be a one-liner comic like Anthony Jeselnik, whether it be social issues commentary, whether it be - hell, Carrot Top. I can't be Carrot Top. I can't.