Byron Allen Quotes

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

I still love to walk on stage and make people laugh, and I work very, very hard at it, and I take it seriously.

I'm trying to be a comedian, you know?

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

I started performing as a stand-up comedian on my own in the mid-1990s.

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.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

Being a comedian is an incredible thing, but it can be scary sometimes.

If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.

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.

It's a really nice way to cut your teeth, doing live shows. It's like going to the gym because you do have to think fast. You are constantly under the threat of people not laughing. Instead of getting hit, people could just not laugh, so you really are trying to mine quickly for the funniest thing you could say in that moment.

I really want to do comedy.

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

Stand-up comedy is something that you have to strive to do, multiple times a night, every night, to be good.

I've been doing comedy for 20 years now. I started when I was 13 and I think for the first 10 years I was impersonating other people.

I thought that I was going to be a stand-up comedian or an actress. Turns out, I can't act my way out of a paper bag and stand-up comedy is a lot harder than it appears.

I've been performing stand-up comedy for ten years, it's what I love and will always do.

I like comedy. I would love to do comedy for a long time.

Here's the thing, with comedy - and I learned this from Will Ferrell - you can't be ashamed. If you're doing comedy, you have to fully commit to the joke. Shame is not part of it. If you act shy or uncomfortable about your body, that makes the audience shy and uncomfortable. And in a comedy you just want them to loosen up and laugh.

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.

Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.

I started doing stand up when I was 19. Because I was underage at the time, at certain clubs I would be forced to wait outside until it was my time to go on stage. Then I would do my set, walk off, and be kicked out again.

Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.

Stand-up, for me, is really more of an addiction, so you have to feed the beast whenever you can.

I like to do comedy. It's my real passion. I want to make people laugh.