Jo Koy Quotes

I worked at restaurants and coffee shops and babysitting and just whatever I could do to make money.

I worked at Suncoast Video for two years during the summer in high school.

And of course I didn't make any money from stand up for years, so I had temp jobs. That was the way I made money.

I was a mechanic at a go-cart place, a deejay at a roller rink, a telemarketer in New York, a grocery bagger.

I worked as a truck driver, carpenter's assistant, doing whatever it took to keep bread on the table for the family.

It's a young man's game - standup comedy.

I thought I could see how standup worked. I never thought of being an actor - or anything else, really - but I thought, 'I can see how you get on stage and tell jokes.'

I worked at Big 5 Sporting Goods, selling shoes and stuff like that, for a couple of summers.

I was a bartender, a hot-dog vendor, a cook, sold magazine subscriptions.

I think what I do is borderline art. Most people who do borderline art have to have other jobs, so I'm very grateful.

Mum worked nonstop, doing two, sometimes three, jobs throughout the 80s.

People who treat waitresses or waiters rudely - or taxi drivers - I have very little tolerance for those people. They work really hard. They deserve courtesy and respect.

I considered myself a professional comedian because the club would pay me $20.

I wouldn't mind having another shot at doing comedy, but I'm not sure that's the way I'd want to go.

This is a dream come true. HBO is the highest echelon in the world for a stand-up comedian to attain. Throughout my career I've trusted my instincts to lead me down the right path, and I am honored to work together with this network while contributing to the legacy that is HBO.

I always wanted to be a comedian. I loved comedy since I was a little kid, and while I was at university I started doing stand up shows. Once I realized that I was good at it I quit college and left although I had six months left. I went to England. I could have done the last six months but I realized that I was better at standup comedy than I was at singing opera.

There are two types of actors. There's the actors who can acknowledge that they could never do standup comedy. Then there's the pretentious ones, who believe that acting is harder than standup comedy. I definitely don't think it is. I also think making a comedy is substantially harder than making a drama.

I always had one goal, and that was to be a real funny stand-up comic, and that's pretty much what I'm doing. And everything else is kind of like gravy - TV, movies.

My parents would make huge crops of sometimes 55 to 60 bales of cotton. Being from a big family where there were 20 children, it wasn't too hard to pick that much cotton. But my father, year after year, didn't get too much money and I remember he just kept going.

To succeed in comedy you ultimately have to put in the hours and get lucky - The amount of people who are able to break through is so small a fraction of the amount of people trying.

When you're a comedian, the Holy Grail is an hour long HBO special.

If you ask me right now, you've seen the last of Mind of Mencia. I don't want to be a one-trick pony. I would rather walk away and do more movies, comedy and even some dramatic roles.

My first year on 'SNL', I made $90,000 dollars.

I think a lot of blue collar people related to me because a lot of people work for their money.

When we graduated [ from Cambridge], we were grabbed right into television. I was grabbed straight into the practice of writing comedy. It was all writing and performing. You wrote something in order for you to perform it.