Grace Helbig Quotes

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

I'll be doing stand-up for the rest of my life. The opportunities that it grants you can't be denied. Stand-up is both the hardest thing I do and the thing I enjoy most.

I sat down and wrote some jokes and went to the talent show, got up on stage, fell in love with it and never turned back.

I did a show called 'What A Country,' with Yakov Smirnoff and Don Knotts. I used to write jokes for Yakov's stand-up act.

I was doing a show at the Comedy Store which Eddie Izzard saw, and we chatted for a bit afterwards. I didn't really know he was; we just hung out as comedians together, and when he heard my story, he said, 'Why don't you tell that on stage?' I didn't really want to burden people with all that, but he said that I could have fun with it.

Some people use stand-up to get something else in their careers, but it's truly the art form of stand-up I love.

What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.

Stand-up keeps you alive. It is definitely the most specialized field in comedy because you need to stay sharp and well-tuned every night.

If you're a comedian, you are looking for material in daily life.

Once I started doing stand-up, everything fell into place. That was when I started acting more; I felt like I'd found my place in the business.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.

I'm set up where I make a lot of money doing stand-up, and it's easy.

'The Daily Show' was amazing because I learned so much.

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

Stand-up is still my job. That is the thing I wanted to get into when I was 21. You cannot beat the immediacy of it, making people laugh without any interruptions or edits.

I think Hollywood is an incredible tool to teach people. It brings stories and information to the television screen, to the movie theater screens, that people get to empathize with.

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

Writing and telling jokes is my favorite thing to do, and I want to be able to do that forever.

I like stand-up. I've done it since I was a teenager, so it's kind of my first job and first kind of creative way to express myself.

I first started as an actor, but there was no money in it, which is why I drifted into comedy.

Before stand-up, I'm not sure I even had a point of view.

I grew up watching Jim Carrey, and I was like, 'I want to be like him. I want to do what exactly what he does.' YouTube was just a platform, kind of like a trampoline to, like, bounce into it at a faster rate.

I've been performing stand-up comedy for ten years, it's what I love and will always do.

I like doing stand-up and I love putting out TV specials. I'm not an actor though, so I don't really have much choice in the matter.