Jimmy Carr Quotes

I'm very lucky in that I've gotten to do a lot of things. But if you ever put a gun to my head and said, "You can only do one," I'd think it would be stand-up. I think it's the coolest job in the world.

I think comedy is difficult, and I'm amazed so many people want to do it. I'll be buying jeans and somebody will say, "I'm a comedian" - the guy selling you the jeans. The desire to be a comedian is weird. I found it weird myself to want to be one; I was a schoolboy when I wanted to be one but I didn't know how to do it. That was 50 years ago, so times have changed greatly. There seems to be a long line of people desperate to do it and most of them are quite good.

What's great about stand-up unlike athletes and other things when you get old you get old and rusty.

I think stand-up comedy is this - it's this kind of indulgence and narcissism.

When you're a young comedian the first thing you want to do is get a laugh.

I love writing stand-up so much and tinkering and looking for ideas.

I'm probably more of a stand-up comedian than an actor.

I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.

I do comedy shows. I make fun of myself, first of all.

If you are doing stand-up comedy, you have to be confident in what you are doing. That doesn't mean just because you are confident you are funny.

Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.

It takes many years to be a great comedian.

I'm always blown away by stand-ups. I'm blown away by people like that who are craftspeople at comedy.

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

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

My first love is doing my own comedy stuff.

I have always wanted to do comedy.

You're on stage and because stand-up comedy is one of the few meritocracies in the entertainment industry, there's some kind of - at least for me, there's some kind of idea of control.

My gift was in comedy. I found out I could make jokes. I could tell jokes. I could write them. So over the years, that's what I've done.

I didn't really get into comedy until a couple months before I started doing comedy.

I love stand-up. I look at it as a way to always stay productive. I couldn't imagine only being an actor or a writer. Because what the hell do I do when I'm not working? Mope?

To me, if you are in the same building with Peter Sellers or John Cleese, or any of those guys and holding your own making other people laugh, that's a compliment.

You gotta have the balls to go out there and be funny, man.

I'm in awe of comedians that do things that I can't do, whether it be a one-liner comic like Anthony Jeselnik, whether it be social issues commentary, whether it be - hell, Carrot Top. I can't be Carrot Top. I can't.

Stand-up in general is the most raw form of entertainment. There is no pyrotechnics or back-up dancers, it's just live and die by your jokes, that's it.