Ellie Taylor Quotes

I think my goal was just to do comedy, honestly. It still is. Whatever form that took or takes, it doesn't matter.

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

I knew at an early age that I wanted to pursue comedy.

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'm doing a lot of stand-up, but not like when you're living in New York and you can do three sets a night and it's your life, and you sleep all day and you wake up and you eat with a bunch of other comics and then get ready for the night.

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

Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said to me, 'You should try stand-up,' and took me to a venue.

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 long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love 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 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.

Theo does comedy now, and he's traveling around the country doing comedy, and I actually just saw him, he's from Louisiana, and I just saw him when I went home to visit my family in Louisiana. I saw his comedy show and he was brilliant.

I love doing comedy. I did comedy for seven years on 'The King of Queens.'

I was 18 when I started. I was hanging out with some friends and they asked if I had tried stand-up before. I hadn't, but I thought: 'What the hell?' So I went to an open mic night, and I liked it.

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.

If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.

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.

I never planned to be a comedian. I don't consider myself one now.

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

I've always been funny, but I never considered it as a particular career path until my early 30s, when I realized that hip-hop wasn't going to be the long term.