Bradley Walsh Quotes

I will always love to perform standup comedy.

I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.

I did standup comedy. I opened once for Jay Leno.

I love standing at a microphone and making a room of people laugh. That's the part of the work I love; everything else is extraneous.

I'll never stop doing stand-up. There's nothing better than getting in front of 2,500 people and making an entire room laugh.

All I ever wanted to do was tell jokes for a living.

I'd been doing standup since college.

I always wanted to be a stand-up comedian, even as a kid. Me and my dad would watch 'Evening at the Improv' on A&E.

I'm not a standup, but I play one on TV.

I spent 25 years as a stand-up comedian.

When you're a stand-up, you play in front of 600 people, and it's all about timing. I could never do stand-up comedy; it would be way too hard for me.

When I told my friends I was going to be a comedian, they laughed at me.

I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-'60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn't the night before.

I started doing stand-up in college.

You say you're a comedian, you always have to be on guard.

I don't have a specific plan except for as long as people want to listen to me talk, I'm going to keep talking. I can't imagine a life without doing standup.

I always tell comics you got to hang with your stand-up.

Trying my hand at standup was exciting to me.

When you're a stand-up comic, you live and die by what you say on stage. There's no director or writer or producer who can tell you what to say and not to say. Once in a while, a club owner will ask a comic to work clean, or not say something, but that's few and far between.

I had no desire to get up onstage and tell jokes. I prefer to stand next to really funny people.

I took a stand-up comedy class because I'd always wanted to.

I've been doing stand-up since I was 19. There have been times I've had to step away because of my schedule, but now I'm able to go out and do theaters and not smoky little bars.

Sometimes in stand-up, you want that late-night set where you get that five minutes, then you want a half-hour special, and then the crown, if you will, is an HBO special.

Anyone who does stand-up comedy can agree that doing a late-night spot is a dream of theirs.

The camera is no one's friend - you have to leave your problems at home and make people laugh. That's never an easy thing to do.