Andrew Keenan-Bolger Quotes

Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people laugh and make them happy.

I always sang, I always acted, I always played.

I adore doing comedy, I think it's fantastic. I never saw myself doing exclusively comedy.

A lot of people who do drama say comedy is the hardest thing, but, not wanting to sound like a bighead, comedy is easy for me, as I've always been fairly funny.

When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'

I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.

I always wanted to be a comedian but never thought I'd be a musical comedian.

I never did stand-up. If I've been funny ever, it was with other actors.

I love and enjoy vocal performance, but I also have a huge passion for comedy and improv.

I should clarify that anyone that goes onstage and makes strangers laugh is insane. So I am insane.

I sat down and wrote some jokes and went to the talent show, got up on stage, fell in love with it and never turned back.

It's a lot of work to put a brand-new monologue and a brand-new show on the air and find comedy every single day. It's challenging and it's the hardest thing I have ever done, but it's the best-suited thing for me. The more relaxed I get and the more confident I feel, the more I get to play and be myself...

I knew I wanted to be in show business so I took the path of least resistance. I loved comedy. But you never know you are funny until people laugh. It's just what I was interested in. I could make people laugh, I guess, but doing it at school and doing it onstage are very different things.

I hope I never have to stop acting. I love it. But, I think the coolest thing about acting is working with these amazing people all the time, and writing represented a new way to meet those people and to tell stories, at the same time, which I've always wanted to do, and to tell jokes. I love comedy, so writing was a way of getting these jokes that I had down on the page.

I didn't know anything about acting, much less about acting in a comedy.

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.

I think I became an actor because I couldn't sing.

Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.

Every night I get up on stage, I love it. I never get like, 'Oh, I'm bored, I want to go home.' I never, ever get like that.

I got into comedy because I wanted to get into writing.

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

Once you've gotten used to performing, you can't give it up.

Comedy isn't really something where you get discovered. You can't network your way to being funny or talented. It's not hard to get seen if you're funny. If you're funny, talented, and work hard, you will go somewhere.

Performing live is like harvesting your crops and sharing your food with people.

For the most part, comedy is the only fair part of show business.