Mark Billingham Quotes

I am a comedian and I started in stand-up when I was 22.

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

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

I started pursuing stand-up comedy in 12th grade.

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

I love comedy. Playing the underdog, and getting the laughs is my form of entertainment. I could think of nothing different that I would want to be doing at this time in my life.

My goal is just to become a better comedian.

I still love to walk on stage and make people laugh, and I work very, very hard at it, and I take it seriously.

I really want to do comedy.

I always wanted to be a comedian.

I get to do comedy for a living.

I always knew I wanted to do comedy. I like making people laugh. I started out young just making my family laugh and trying to make kids laugh in school and getting into plays. I think it's the only thing I know how to do so hopefully it works out.

I like comedy. I would love to do comedy for a long time.

Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

I see myself as a comic but the acting helps sell tickets for gigs.

I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.

I wanted to be a comedian.

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

To tell you the truth, I always wanted to be a sketch comedian and a comedy actor.

Podcasts feature comedians being as funny as they can be in a non-censored situation. It's really akin to standup in a way. When you go see a comedian in standup, that is the most pure, unadulterated form of their art.

25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene.