Todd Barry Quotes

I got into comedy so I could stay out all night.

I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

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

I love doing comedy. I did comedy for seven years on 'The King of Queens.'

In my mind, I was always a comedian who was going to branch into writing.

Comedy is my passion. I'm going to do this until I drop.

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

If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.

There's tons of dudes - like David O'Doherty, Tim Key, and Alex Horne - I made a lot of friends with people who are really incredible comics.

I knew at an early age that I wanted to pursue comedy.

I don't know that I'd be a comedian if I stayed in Canada.

When I was doing comedy in New York, before I was in movies, I was never known as the deadpan actress. I was just a comedienne.

But I just think I was lucky enough to figure out early on that I wanted to do comedy, so that's what I put all my effort into.

I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.

If I had to design a career for myself, I would have done comedy.

I see myself as a comedian rather than a female comedian. I happen to be a woman, but I am a comedian by trade.

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.

When I started out in comedy, it was common knowledge that it took about 10 years to get good. And that was okay because it took you about 9 years to get on television.

Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.

But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up.

Um, I'm just naturally super-funny. No, not really. I've never been in The Groundlings or anything.

I've been doing comedy and paying my bills.

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

When I was, like, 15, I realized there could be a career in making people laugh - like, you could get paid to do it. That was insane to me.