Virginia Madsen Quotes

I have always wanted to do comedy.

I think comedy is difficult, and I'm amazed so many people want to do it. I'll be buying jeans and somebody will say, "I'm a comedian" - the guy selling you the jeans. The desire to be a comedian is weird. I found it weird myself to want to be one; I was a schoolboy when I wanted to be one but I didn't know how to do it. That was 50 years ago, so times have changed greatly. There seems to be a long line of people desperate to do it and most of them are quite good.

I'm trying to be a comedian, you know?

I really want to do comedy.

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

I just want to continue to do comedy. Comedy, I'm discovering, is my niche. It's what I'm born to do, so I would love to have my own sitcom one day in the future.

I love comedy and I hope I never stop doing it.

I am a comedian and I started in stand-up when I was 22.

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

I often say that ... I'm just involved in comedy, so I can be around it.

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 knew I wanted to do comedy. I like making people laugh. I started out young just making my family laugh and trying to make kids laugh in school and getting into plays. I think it's the only thing I know how to do so hopefully it works out.

I love doing comedy, I really do. It was perhaps my first love. And I think, as an actor, you're young and you do school plays and the reason you go 'I might do more of this' is because you make people laugh in a school play. You don't go and do Hamlet when you're nine and go: "I feel people were really moved out there!" You do a silly voice and everyone laughs and you go: "Ooh, that feels quite nice. I might make a life out of this!"

I really have a love for comedy. I can't express it enough.

I always wanted to be a comedian.

I've been doing comedy in New York since 2007.

We live in a fun time with so many ways to express yourself, you would be crazy to be a comedian and not check them all out.

I've always loved comedy and growing up it was the comedies that I really responded to. So I don't know how it turned out that once I started acting that I started getting a certain kind of role, that I never saw myself as growing up, so I really love when I get an opportunity to play a [comedian] role.

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

Comedy isn't really something where you get discovered. You can't network your way to being funny or talented. It's not hard to get seen if you're funny. If you're funny, talented, and work hard, you will go somewhere.

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

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

Comedy is not my world. It's difficult for me, but sometimes you just have to go with it and have a good time.

People who do comedy really are the nastiest people on the planet.

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