Robert Snodgrass Quotes

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

I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist.

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

I realize as I get older that stand-up is a huge part of who I am. I think I'll do it for the rest of my life.

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

People who have heard of me have heard of me mostly through presenting and asked, 'Why have you gone into comedy?'

I know I'm going to be doing standup for the rest of my life.

I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.

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

I never thought I'd end up doing comedy, but actually, it's been something I've really relished the challenge of and ended up doing quite a bit of.

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

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

I never knew if I would get my own show, but I knew I loved stand-up.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

Little did I know that earning a living at stand-up is the hardest thing you can do. But once I started doing it, I just loved it, and I realized that I was actually kinda good at it, and then that was it.

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

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.

Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it's hard to turn away. Then, of course, you're hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.

I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I do, it's what I've been doing and it's what I'm going to keep doing.

I never thought I'd do comedy, ever, in a million years. I always thought comedy was just for fun - to me, the real stuff was the real dramatic stuff. Now I know it's all valuable. There's a real excitement, a good feeling when you can make people laugh.

I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy.

I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.

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

I was lucky enough to find stand-up really early in life. And I'm so grateful that I did, because the second I found it, I was like, 'I know what I want to do'.