Lauren Lapkus Quotes

I think I always was a bit of a class clown, but I don't know how successful I was at that. I always think, when I read about people being class clowns, I imagine them being actually very funny, and I don't know that I was. But I tried to be, I think.

I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.

I want to show the world my humor.

I made a living out of being a class clown.

Since childhood, I've been a clown. I've always liked being very funny or trying to make people laugh. It's my original self.

Getting a laugh was what I'd been doing with my family and at school since the age of three.

Comedy is second nature for me.

I think since I was kid people told me that they thought I was funny.

I was a bit of a goofball. I was always silly. I think that lends itself to being an actor.

Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.

I was a class clown.

The thing I gravitated to was being the class clown. It was very competitive.

I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.

Honestly, I was a good kid but I figured out pretty early that I had a gift for making people laugh. I wanted to entertain and when that happens you tend to get yourself in trouble in class.

Sometimes, comedy and entertainment is not all about telling jokes; sometimes you just have to be you for a few moments.

Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wanted to. And so could I.

I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons.

I'm a 'Bridesmaids' type of girl. I love silliness. That's who I am at heart, and I know I can do it. If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.

I'm pretty goofy. I really do like to sing and dance in real life. I'm a rhythmic person. I love comedy; I love making people laugh. That's my brand.

I was born to be funny.

I was always writing. I was writing in high school because it was a really competitive school for class clowns; I used to have to write all of my snaps and my disses the night before and then act like I was making it up the next day.

I guess I was the class clown - with a name like Albert Einstein, you don't hide in the back. I'd read the school bulletin to the class, and I'd add activities and make stuff up. It was good, a good 10 minutes every morning.

All I know is just how to make people laugh.

In high school, I didn't know what comedy was, but I was involved in speech and debate and public speaking.

I was a class clown. I realized early on feeling very comfortable in front of people.