Patton Oswalt Quotes

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

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

I always wanted to be a comedian but never thought I'd be a musical comedian.

I adore doing comedy, I think it's fantastic. I never saw myself doing exclusively comedy.

I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction.

When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'

At the end of the day, I do think I'm happiest doing comedy. I love it. I know that I can do other things. I love drama as well.

I did say to myself one day, 'I'd love to be a Jewish comedian,' but that's my only memory with any connection to show business.

I'm more of a sketch guy than a standup.

It's always been a dream of mine to write comedy and be creative.

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

Comedy is my proper job. It's what I should be doing, and when I do other bits like my science series, I miss it.

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.

But I just think I was lucky enough to figure out early on that I wanted to do comedy, so that's what I put all my effort into.

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

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

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 had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

Anybody with a sharp brain and a mic can become a comedian, but there's a need to move beyond it. The audience wants to witness the marriage of theatre, comedy and something more.

Um, I'm just naturally super-funny. No, not really. I've never been in The Groundlings or anything.

When I talk to Steve Martin, he's joyful when he talks about comedy.

If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.

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

I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.