Greg Giraldo Quotes

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 never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it.

I realize as I get older that stand-up is a huge part of who I am. I think I'll do it for the rest of my life.

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

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

But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up.

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.

Stand-up, for me, is really more of an addiction, so you have to feed the beast whenever you can.

Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy, and then toiled in obscurity for years.

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.

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

There are comedians that I like. I think a lot of it, you just figure out on your own. It's definitely one of those things that you get good at by doing it a lot. But I like Jim Gaffigan. Patton Oswalt. Janeane Garofalo.

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

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 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.

I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl.

I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy.

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

I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can.

I feel lucky that I can have people laugh solidly for a whole hour by just saying what I think and getting paid for it.

I always tell comics you got to hang with your stand-up.

I still love to walk on stage and make people laugh, and I work very, very hard at it, and I take it seriously.

I got to a point where I wanted to have some dignity in what I'm saying onstage. I want people to hear what I'm saying, regardless of whether or not it gets a laugh. That became a lot more rewarding than straight acting could ever be for me.

I'd been doing standup since college.

People who have heard of me have heard of me mostly through presenting and asked, 'Why have you gone into comedy?'