Bobcat Goldthwait Quotes

I've been doing stand-up since '89.

After I graduated, I tried Broadway, which was difficult for me. It was tough to get a part on Broadway, so I just started talking to audiences at different social gatherings, and little by little I became Don Rickles - whatever that is.

Being a rapper is about being cool, but being a comedian, you're not supposed to be the coolest guy.

I have this very abstract idea in my head. I wouldn't even want to call it stand-up, because stand-up conjures in one's mind a comedian with a microphone standing onstage under a spotlight telling jokes to an audience. The direction I'm going in is eventually, you won't know if it's a joke or not.

I still love to walk on stage and make people laugh, and I work very, very hard at it, and I take it seriously.

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

I wanted to be a comedian long before I wanted to be a musician, for sure.

I've been entertaining men with my comedy for many, many years, and I don't plan on stopping.

I started as a ventriloquist, a very bad ventriloquist. And people saw my lips moving and it was ridiculous, so finally I decided I'd better change my occupation.

For me, acting is an art.

Acting is my profession; I enact all roles with sincerity.

Stand-up comedy is something that you have to strive to do, multiple times a night, every night, to be good.

I was a drama teacher, so I had the opportunity to show off in front of a captive audience. I essentially did 13 years of stand-up. Whether my pupils would agree that I was remotely interesting or not is another question.

A lot of comedians want people to listen to them. I don't think we've ever been that bothered about whether people would want to listen to us.

Acting is just such an incredible art form.

We spent night after night out there learning the art of entertaining a crowd.

I don't write anything. It's all done onstage, which is why I always tell younger comics that they just have to go do it. You have to get up, talk, and take a thought or a word and just expound, and you find it in there. I don't sit down and write.

I was always under the impression that acting is an innate gift. One of the first things I heard them say at Koothu-P-Pattarai was that actors should realise the art of acting through their training.

I'm not really trying to be a stand-up comedian. I have a huge amount of respect for the guys who do it. That's their livelihood. That's their job. It's just something that I enjoy.

People who have very devastating lives sometimes have the most wild, avant-garde humor. It's like when you've seen it all and been through it all, nothing is off-limits in a way.

I did so many open mics. I would write jokes on Twitter constantly, and then slowly, over time, open mics turned into shows. If you can get a joke to work at an open mic, it's a good joke.

I know I'm going to be doing standup for the rest of my life.

When acting, I can wear another person's clothes and act out the attractiveness of a particular character, which is very interesting for me. Singing is something I love as well.

I loved stand-up, but I never thought you could do it as a job.

Sometimes when I'm performing, whenever my puppet cracks a joke, it actually makes me laugh.