Michael McIntyre Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

The moment for me, thinking I might actually want to do comedy professionally, was when I did public speaking at school. I found out I was good at getting up in front of class. In the fifth grade, I did a speech on comedy.

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

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

I never used to tell jokes on stage. Now I'm cutting up jokes all night long.

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 doing stand-up since '89.

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

But I love stand-up, and it's where I came from creatively, so it's something I never want to walk away from.

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.

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

Lewis Black taught me stand-up.

I prefer being known for my stand-up because I write it. I love being an actor, and saying other people's words is great. But then, when I do stand-up, I love getting my own point of view out there.

I never thought I'd do comedy, ever, in a million years. I always thought comedy was just for fun - to me, the real stuff was the real dramatic stuff. Now I know it's all valuable. There's a real excitement, a good feeling when you can make people laugh.

Comedy is something that I'm definitely looking to get into. I had a little taste of it and I do intend on going to classes for it because I think it's a different muscle, and it's hard to find female comedians.

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

Stand-up is kind of like my home base, and doing stand-up in New York is what I like doing most.