Julian Barratt Quotes

Standup led me to acting because I liked standup, and I saw people on a stage, and the closest, nearest thing to me was doing plays. It was like, that's the same thing as standup - people are on a stage; they're being seen and saying things - so, because of my love of standup, I moved towards acting.

I got into standup because I wanted to be an actor, and then I ended up loving standup for the next eleven years.

A lot of people get into stand-up as a back door into acting or something. But I really like writing jokes and telling jokes.

I started doing standup when I was in college, and I would incorporate a lot of characters into my act.

Once I started doing stand-up, everything fell into place. That was when I started acting more; I felt like I'd found my place in the business.

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

I don't have a specific plan except for as long as people want to listen to me talk, I'm going to keep talking. I can't imagine a life without doing standup.

I did standup comedy. I opened once for Jay Leno.

I really love standup because it's something that I've been literally doing for 40 years, which means I'm a thousand years old.

I just loved stand-up comics as a kid. I'd watch them on 'The Tonight Show,' and I thought what a great craft it was to come out on stage with no instrument or anything and be able to entertain people.

Stand-up was my entree into the entertainment world. I didn't have to act out somebody else's words. I could just stand there with a microphone, and nobody would interrupt me. It's the most narcissistic thing you could probably do.

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

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.

I never used to tell jokes on stage. Now I'm cutting up jokes all night long.

Some people use stand-up to get something else in their careers, but it's truly the art form of stand-up I love.

I still do standup.

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

After I graduated, I tried Broadway, which was difficult for me. It was tough to get a part on Broadway, so I just started talking to audiences at different social gatherings, and little by little I became Don Rickles - whatever that is.

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

You know, I love acting.

You instinctively discover how to entertain an audience.

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.

Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don't believe me when I tell them. That's how I saw myself, in comedy.

I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.