Pete Holmes Quotes

With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.

Comedy clubs are sacred ground. That's where anything goes.

I had always been heavily influenced by stand-up.

A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious.

There's nothing more difficult to do than comedy.

For comedy, timing is key.

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

Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it's my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers.

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

The jokes I used to do on 'Sex and the City' were always comic character things, and they were rarely hard jokes. As soon as you go up in front of people, it demands laughter.

If you have something important to say, Broadway and New York are great places to say it.

I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.

I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.

Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.

I just want to be funny, I just want to do comedy.

He is very dry but also very funny... I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.

Hey, I think comic actors are the best actors.

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

I've been a stand-up comedian for years, and I can be silly.

The first time I did stand-up was the summer I was 17.

I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.

I try to make the majority of my audience laugh. That's my audience. They'll laugh at the dead terrorist.

I am desperate to do a comedy now.

A lot of people my age think stand up sucks.

There's depth in my comedy.