Redfoo Quotes

The thing about stand-up is that you end up meeting your idols.

I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.

I moved from acting to stand-up because castings are just about what you look like. It doesn't matter if you can act or not. In comedy, no one cares what you look like.

I'm in showbusiness. I'm an entertainer.

I didn't become a comedian to work this hard.

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

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

I love the comedy world and really grew up in green rooms, so I wanted to show the positives and negatives.

I want to delve into the world of performing.

I feel joy when I do a great show. I get fun out of making other people happy. I'm a terminal people-pleaser. I suppose that's why I'm a frontman.

Being performers, that's what we do: We put on shows and want people to watch.

What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.

I really admire stand-up, and I think I would have loved to learn how to do it. I think it's terrifying and thrilling. A really cool thing to do. It's a dying art, in a way.

Every comic is really a frustrated rock star.

Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.

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

To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's the best job in the world.

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

You know, I love acting.

I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction.

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.

When I was younger I always thought, 'If I were ever a comedian I'd make it like a rock concert.' I wanted to generate that type of enthusiasm and excitement.

I've been performing on stage since I was six years old.

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.

Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.