Ardal O'Hanlon Quotes

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wanted to. And so could I.

I see myself as an entertainer.

It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

Ever since I was 2 or 3, I loved to perform for people. I would walk up to another table in a restaurant and crack a joke, sing a song, do a dance, or something entertaining, and the 'audience' would almost always smile and laugh.

Being performers, that's what we do: We put on shows and want people to watch.

I didn't think I was a famous singer. I didn't think I was a star or that I could make the waters part - just that singing was what I was going to do.

Some of my fans want me to just dance and go crazy and wear flashy outfits.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.

I just want to keep people entertained.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

I'm like the master of ceremonies being funny, and then sometimes people you're with, girlfriends and stuff, are like, 'God I wish I had the person on stage to be with all the time.'

I've always seen myself as one of those 'show people.' My earliest memories are wanting and needing to entertain people, like a gypsy traveler who goes from place to place, city to city, performing for audiences and reaching people.

I really enjoy doing the live stuff.

It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.

I'm just a guy who happens to work in public from time to time. I've built a reputation as an established comic, not as a celebrity - a celebrity is someone who is famous but doesn't do anything.

I know I can get laughs anywhere, in front of any crowd, if I'm given the chance.

I just want to be known as funny.

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

I'm a total performer.

I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.

I love performing in front of people, no matter where they come from or what language they speak.

For me, I've worked hard for people to think I'm funny.