John Leguizamo Quotes

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

I always think about my jokes as like I'm driving down a street, trying to go into all the culs-de-sacs along the way. I'm just taking a thoughtful, weird journey.

I try to write three jokes every morning, although I don't know what they are. I write them as fast as I can, then I put them away for a month. So I couldn't even tell you what they are, or if they're good. I just assume they weren't.

Usually the beginning of a story that people hear a lot. For example, "My girlfriend is upset about her new haircut" or "My dad keeps losing his car keys." And then I just think of different ways the story could end. "My girlfriend is upset about her new haircut. I don't understand why she's crying. I'm the one who has to get a new girlfriend." Then I try it out on stage. I don't do a lot of re-writing. My jokes either work or they don't. The trick is just to write a ton of jokes.

I love writing stand-up so much and tinkering and looking for ideas.

I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it.

I would be an idiot to say comedy is easy, but it does come naturally. It never feels forced.

First and foremost, I just want to write comedy.

In my mind, I was always a comedian who was going to branch into writing.

When you have a writing partner and you're writing a comedy, your goal is to make each other laugh.

I wrote comedy sketches in college.

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

I love to write jokes and that's all I think about.

I work with some of the funniest writers in the country.

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

Twitter is a good medium to lean how to write jokes. It pushes you to write a better joke in that, on Twitter, the first joke about something has already happened. You need to think of the second joke and the third joke.

That's what comedy is like: You have to force yourself out in the world because you're always one experience away from new material.

I just realized at a certain point that no matter how much writing I did, I'm still a gym rat for comedy clubs.

I don't have any writers. I never get a laugh with somebody else's jokes. I can't do it justice.

I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing.

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

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.

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

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

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.