Jamie Kennedy Quotes

I'm trying to be a comedian, you know?

Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all.

I always knew I wanted to do comedy. I like making people laugh.

I wanted to be a comedian.

The comedian just wants to get a laugh.

Everyone tells me I need to do comedy. It's never something that crossed my mind, but to be able to do a true comedy and make people laugh, that would be great.

I started comedy in, like, 1998.

I always wanted to be a popular comedian.

I really want to do comedy.

I started pursuing stand-up comedy in 12th grade.

I always wanted to be a comedian.

I really love standup, and I really love writing standup.

I have always wanted to do comedy.

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!"

When you're a young comedian the first thing you want to do is get a laugh.

When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism... What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people laugh. I was a few years out of college before I felt I had enough material. Then in 1988 I moved to L.A. and started to do some shows at comedy clubs.

Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people laugh and make them happy.

I'm traveling the world, ripping rooms apart with my stupendous comedy.

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

Here's the thing, with comedy - and I learned this from Will Ferrell - you can't be ashamed. If you're doing comedy, you have to fully commit to the joke. Shame is not part of it. If you act shy or uncomfortable about your body, that makes the audience shy and uncomfortable. And in a comedy you just want them to loosen up and laugh.

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.

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

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

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

I like to do comedy. It's my real passion. I want to make people laugh.