Mitch Hedberg Quotes

I didn't really get into comedy until a couple months before I started doing comedy.

I'm just going to keep doing comedy because I don't know what else to do. I have no other applicable skills.

All of my life doing interviews, comedy has been my favorite thing, comedians are my favorite people.

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

For aspiring comedians? Don't listen to me. Just go on stage and do what you think is funny.

I used to think of myself as a comedian. I've always admired comedians. Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There's a liberation in that.

When you're a comic, it's like being born gay. It's what you want to do every night when your other friends are out at night going to parties.

I like to read, but otherwise I'm just your average, self-obsessed comedian. It's pretty much all I think about.

For the most part, comedy is the only fair part of show business.

I'm friends with a lot of comedians, but we don't talk about material. Most comedians I know don't watch a lot of other comedy.

I thought she was the funniest woman, and I believed being a comedian was the most exciting thing you could be.

Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.

I love comedy. If I could be a comedian - well, I probably would not take that job because it seems really hard, but I wish I could be.

If I want to keep working as an actor, I'm going to become a comedian who does fart jokes.

I really wanted to, but I just didn't understand how people became comedians. I kind of thought it was something you were born into. And so I wanted to be a veterinarian or an architect. I wanted to be in a band, and for some reason I could understand how you could be in a band because I had guitars and all my friends played music. Comedy was a secret want, but it wasn't anything I pursued.

I always loved comedy, but it never seemed like something that I could do professionally.

I'm a comedian so I'm not waiting around for someone to write a part for me. I don't have to wait for somebody else to create my next job; I have the ability to basically write my own ticket.

A lot of amazing comedians that I've worked with just really follow their instincts and you can't really teach someone comedic timing. And you just kind of have it.

I've been trying to bust into the comedy business my whole life. It's hard in Hollywood to do different things. I know this. It's a struggle.

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.

It used to be if you wanted to be a comedian, you used to just do sets. You'd go up three times a night, just get better, and then some people would see you and you'd do 'The Tonight Show,' and then boom, you're a comedian.

I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn't see that as a job description anywhere.

I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people primarily knew me as 'the kid stand-up.'