Bobcat Goldthwait Quotes

I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl.

I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people primarily knew me as 'the kid stand-up.'

I went to theater school, and then comedy... just happened.

I worked as a comedian for 23 years, 51 weeks a year.

I've been doing stand-up since I was 19. There have been times I've had to step away because of my schedule, but now I'm able to go out and do theaters and not smoky little bars.

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.

Anyone who does stand-up comedy can agree that doing a late-night spot is a dream of theirs.

I'm trying to be a comedian, you know?

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.

I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.

I got into comedy so I could stay out all night.

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 was always the class clown; I made my family laugh, and that was when I was always happiest. I grew up listening to stand-up comedians' albums and watching them on TV, on 'The Tonight Show' and Letterman.

I think right now is the best time for stand-up, ever. I sincerely do.

I like doing stand-up and I love putting out TV specials.

I've been doing stand-up since '89.

I started stand-up in 2007. I'd done a couple of gigs before that, but not much, and I was in a sketch group at Uni from 2005 as well.

I spent 25 years as a stand-up comedian.

I got into stand-up to get on a sitcom.

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.

Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.

When I started stand-up, the first thing I did was to take an improv class.

I wasn't planning on being a comedian; I just liked to laugh. Somebody said I should do it and that's how I started.

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