Yvonne Orji Quotes

Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.

When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'

I don't do stand-up anymore.

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

I see myself as a comedian rather than a female comedian. I happen to be a woman, but I am a comedian by trade.

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

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.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

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

I adore doing comedy, I think it's fantastic. I never saw myself doing exclusively comedy.

Theo does comedy now, and he's traveling around the country doing comedy, and I actually just saw him, he's from Louisiana, and I just saw him when I went home to visit my family in Louisiana. I saw his comedy show and he was brilliant.

Stand-up is the foundation to my career. It's what I started out doing.

Podcasts feature comedians being as funny as they can be in a non-censored situation. It's really akin to standup in a way. When you go see a comedian in standup, that is the most pure, unadulterated form of their art.

When you're in comedy, people always come up and say, 'Oh, it must be so hard.' It really isn't hard unless you're not good at it. If you can do it, its really kind of fun and easy.

I haven't really done a lot of comedy. It's something that terrifies me.

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

I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays.

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.

At the end of the day, I do think I'm happiest doing comedy. I love it. I know that I can do other things. I love drama as well.

I love making comedy. I never stopped loving it. I will continue to love it and I can't believe that I get to do it.

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

When did I start comedy? I came out of the womb and did 10 minutes.

I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to create my own comedy. But I still love doing stand-up and will probably be doing it forever. I'd love to be an old guy who can't really walk, can't really stand-up, and I have to sit on the stool and tell jokes.

People who I've worked with are always like, 'Why aren't you doing comedy? You're funny!' because they've only seen the one side. I did do the comedy 'Whatever Works,' with Woody Allen and Larry David.