Pete Davidson Quotes

I started doing stand-up in college.

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

I always wanted to be a stand-up comedian, even as a kid. Me and my dad would watch 'Evening at the Improv' on A&E.

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

Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.

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.

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

The first time I did stand-up was the summer I was 17.

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

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 started doing my own animated movies when I was in ninth grade; that's when I got the filmmaking bug. When I was about 16, I started writing jokes for doing stand up, and then I was 19 and started doing stand up.

When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that.

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

You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.

I don't really do stand-up.

I'm not a natural comic, I don't think. That's why I gave up stand-up. It was hard. It involved a lot of death. Dying. Dying on stage. But it's one of those jobs you can only learn by doing it.

The moment for me, thinking I might actually want to do comedy professionally, was when I did public speaking at school. I found out I was good at getting up in front of class. In the fifth grade, I did a speech on comedy.

The thing about stand-up is that you end up meeting your idols.

Science was always a passion, but I also loved 'Monty Python' and 'The Young Ones,' and I discovered the Footlights comedy club at university, where a lot of those people got their start. I had a go and loved it immediately. After that, I just couldn't stop writing sketches, and it all took off from there.

I've been performing stand-up comedy for ten years, it's what I love and will always do.

The beautiful thing about stand-up is you can create and immediately deliver, perform, and get paid for what you do.

When I used to watch comedians with my dad, he laid it all out for me. He wanted to be a comedian himself, and he was so funny. We'd watch stand-up on TV, and he'd tell me the subtext of what they were saying.

I really admire stand-up, and I think I would have loved to learn how to do it. I think it's terrifying and thrilling. A really cool thing to do. It's a dying art, in a way.

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.