Jon Richardson Quotes

I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.

I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.

I really admire stand-up, and I think I would have loved to learn how to do it. I think it's terrifying and thrilling. A really cool thing to do. It's a dying art, in a way.

Some people use stand-up to get something else in their careers, but it's truly the art form of stand-up I love.

I never knew if I would get my own show, but I knew I loved stand-up.

Little did I know that earning a living at stand-up is the hardest thing you can do. But once I started doing it, I just loved it, and I realized that I was actually kinda good at it, and then that was it.

Stand-up is the foundation to my career. It's what I started out doing.

Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.

Once I started doing stand-up, everything fell into place. That was when I started acting more; I felt like I'd found my place in the business.

I realize as I get older that stand-up is a huge part of who I am. I think I'll do it for the rest of my life.

I enjoy stand up so much because I take time off, and then I'll be excited to go back to it.

Stand-up was my entree into the entertainment world. I didn't have to act out somebody else's words. I could just stand there with a microphone, and nobody would interrupt me. It's the most narcissistic thing you could probably do.

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

I got into standup because I wanted to be an actor, and then I ended up loving standup for the next eleven years.

No, I never really set out to be a stand up. I wanted to be a writer of some sort. I thought I'd do a bit of stand up and hopefully that will lead to stuff and little did I know it kind of snowballed. Before I knew it I was doing stand up 300 nights a year.

A lot of people get into stand-up as a back door into acting or something. But I really like writing jokes and telling jokes.

I've been performing stand-up comedy for ten years, it's what I love and will always do.

I love to work. I love doing standup.

I think my goal was just to do comedy, honestly. It still is. Whatever form that took or takes, it doesn't matter.

Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

I never thought I'd end up doing comedy, but actually, it's been something I've really relished the challenge of and ended up doing quite a bit of.

I've been a comedian since I was fourteen. But I've never really been a CEO.

Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said to me, 'You should try stand-up,' and took me to a venue.

My stand-up has a lot of performance in it, and I loved doing it so much that, after years, I put the idea of having a show on the back burner.