Wendy Liebman Quotes

I'm really not an actor of any kind. I've always seen myself as an entertainer, someone who makes people laugh. That's all I've ever wanted to do. 'Doctor Who' has always just been me, really.

I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

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

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to create my own comedy. But I still love doing stand-up and will probably be doing it forever. I'd love to be an old guy who can't really walk, can't really stand-up, and I have to sit on the stool and tell jokes.

From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.

I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. I've got no plans to stop doing it.

My younger sister's a comedian. She has a sketch comedy group in Chicago called Schadenfreude and I look at her with such admiration and envy because it's such an amazing thing to make someone laugh.

Like other kids wanted to become firemen or astronauts, I wanted to make people laugh.

I used to do comedy during my theatre days, and I was good at that.

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

When I got on Stern I realized that this was the one job where you could be really honest and open, almost like Richard Pryor or something. You can be honest about your life and get laughs.

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

I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.

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

I never do impressions, but I probably should. People like that stuff.

I am desperate to do a comedy now.

Most comics worship music on some level. It's more rock-n-roll to get up there for an hour and make people laugh.

I love comedy and did a lot of comedy in college. I was in an improv comedy group with my friends.

My comedy is different every time I do it. I don't know what the hell I'm doing.

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.

At the end of the day, I do think I'm happiest doing comedy. I love it. I know that I can do other things. I love drama as well.

Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.

I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy.