Elayne Boosler Quotes

I always loved comedy but I didn't start formally until I was in college.

I've always wanted to do a real comedy. I haven't done enough, and it seems silly not to do more, considering the fact that people tend to laugh at me.

I really like to do comedy, and I did comedy the first 2 years after I graduated college, so I really love it and appreciate it.

I'm probably more of a stand-up comedian than an actor.

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

I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist.

Comedy. I think that's something I'd really like to do.

I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.

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.

I never really set out to be a comedian, but as a kid, I loved doing sketches and playing characters. And then a great friend kept telling me I should be a comedian, so I followed her advice and gave it a shot.

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

I'd like to try comedy, at some point, but no one ever hires me for comedy, ever.

I think I probably would have gone into stand-up.

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

From the age of 14, I remember thinking I wanted to be a comedian. But that was like saying I wanted to be an astronaut. It felt like a million miles away, something I could never do, but would be great to.

I never really thought of comedy as a career. My goal was, when I moved to New York, I was going to write serious films.

I didn't have any plan to go into comedy.

Comedy is my proper job. It's what I should be doing, and when I do other bits like my science series, I miss it.

I love doing comedy, I really do. It was perhaps my first love. And I think, as an actor, you're young and you do school plays and the reason you go 'I might do more of this' is because you make people laugh in a school play. You don't go and do Hamlet when you're nine and go: "I feel people were really moved out there!" You do a silly voice and everyone laughs and you go: "Ooh, that feels quite nice. I might make a life out of this!"

My background is all comedy. I've been doing improv since I was 17. It's funny, because when I meet people, I'm known as this guy who will punch you in the face or throw you out a window, when I also have a background in comedy.

I like comedy. I would love to do comedy for a long time.

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.

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

I did sketch comedy for years. I've always enjoyed it.