Aisling Bea Quotes

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

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.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

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.

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.

In Manhattan, I often do two or three or more shows a night, so I'm always working on new material.

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 just like doing standup, that's all I'm interested in or good at.

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

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.

Comedy doesn't really matter that much; I know that. I treat it like an adult - I don't treat it like a child or a god, which some people do. This might just be in America, but 'stand-up comedy' is something very particular that I don't particularly relate to.

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

Doing comedy takes much lesser toll on you as a person. The overall exertion is not as much as a serious film like 'Pink.'

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

I was lucky enough to find stand-up really early in life. And I'm so grateful that I did, because the second I found it, I was like, 'I know what I want to do'.

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.

If I want to be a real comedian, I can't let you dictate my material, so I started creating more new material.

If you haven't truly died a million times as a comic you haven't gigged enough!

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

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

When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism... What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people laugh. I was a few years out of college before I felt I had enough material. Then in 1988 I moved to L.A. and started to do some shows at comedy clubs.

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.

One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There's so many things that I can not do in life, and this is, like, the one thing that I have mastery over. It's my world. And anybody who's coming to the show, it's like they're coming because they know that this is my world.

But I just think I was lucky enough to figure out early on that I wanted to do comedy, so that's what I put all my effort into.

You start realizing that maybe you're the one night a month that people have out, and they don't need to hear your political views or how dark you can get. They just want to laugh for an hour and go home. Once I wrapped my head around that, my act evolved accordingly.