Judah Friedlander Quotes

I'm probably more of a stand-up comedian than an actor.

I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.

I always wanted to be a comedian, but I wasn't sure how you do that.

People see me on the 'Daily Show' or 'About a Boy'. But the reality is that I only got into this business to do standup comedy.

I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.

I never really set out to be a comedian, but as a kid, I loved doing sketches and playing characters. And then a great friend kept telling me I should be a comedian, so I followed her advice and gave it a shot.

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

I started comedy in 2006. I didn't even think it was a thing I could do.

From the age of 14, I remember thinking I wanted to be a comedian. But that was like saying I wanted to be an astronaut. It felt like a million miles away, something I could never do, but would be great to.

I started pursuing stand-up comedy in 12th grade.

Like everybody, I started out doing 'bringer' shows - the kind where if you show up with a certain number of people, you get to perform. Sometimes I would actually pay strangers off the street to come in and see my set.

I don't want a chat show or to be on telly every day, as that's not my business; my business is standing in front of people and making them laugh, and I want to see how far I can get with that.

As long as I get to be doing what I love, which is making comedy and that kind of thing, I feel lucky that I get to.

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.

So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.

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

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

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

I think you can go from being not very funny to working really hard for 10 years and figuring out how to make a living on the road, but I don't think you can rise much above that.

I spent 25 years as a stand-up comedian.

Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.

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

I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist.

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

I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I do, it's what I've been doing and it's what I'm going to keep doing.