Carlos Alazraqui Quotes

I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job.

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

It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy.' And I was like, 'No! No!' But I was able to get my foot in the door through comedy. I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to do it.

Basically, I was always very interested in comedy, but I was much more sort of academic. And then, after college, loaded with my art history degree, I decided to go work at Comedy Central as a temp.

I started doing comedy with no plan to do voice work. Voice work came as a function of doing comedy and meeting people who eventually develop shows like that. I didn't seek out from an early age to be on cartoons.

I always wanted to be a comedian, but I wasn't sure how you do that.

I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.

I got into standup because I wanted to be an actor, and then I ended up loving standup for the next eleven years.

I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky.

Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'

I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.

If I'm a game show host, will someone buy a ticket to see me do standup? To do a dramatic role in a movie?

I majored in illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design, although I never had any intention of being an illustrator and didn't take any classes in illustration there. It was just that the illustration degree had no requirements.

I decided that I didn't want to spend my time in a liberal arts college.

I wish I knew what was next. I got this movie without planning to. I'm really excited to be continuing in film because it's a great job but I have my portfolio and resume for any other opportunity.

I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

I decided I would go to NYU so I could get into the comedy world and have legit housing, and my parents would not have trusted investing in a straight-up comedy career.

I always thought I'd go to university and then get a real job, you know. Now I want to do stuff that really makes me happy. Although I'm still trying to work out what that is. But for me there are always constants.

After I graduated high school and came out to do 'Buffy,' I was enrolled at my mom's university, and I was going to go get a real job. I never thought of acting and never really wanted to be an actor.

I went to college a little bit, and that didn't work out, and I didn't finish. So, I would play in bars until I ran out of money, and then I'd get a real job.

I took a clown class at NYU - that's where I met June Diane Raphael, my writing partner and best friend.

Going to college and finding a good job no longer guarantee economic safety.

I guess I hit a point while I was in college when I realized I would have to do something with my life!

When you get out of school, you just go where the wind blows: Here's an audition; there's an audition. And before you know it, you're where you're supposed to be. And that was Second City.

It never dawned on me that I had the option of becoming a comedian. I come from a little dirt street town in northwest Texas, and they really don't talk about the arts there much on career day.