Sheila Heti Quotes

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

I just want to be funny, I just want to do comedy.

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

My drama instructor suggested I try comedy. I was resistant at first because I considered myself a serious actor, but of course I fell in love with it.

Everyone tells me I need to do comedy. It's never something that crossed my mind, but to be able to do a true comedy and make people laugh, that would be great.

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

I used to do comedy during my theatre days, and I was good at that.

I had always been heavily influenced by stand-up.

I've never written jokes. I mean, I'll write things on a piece of paper and riff on them onstage.

Twitter is the place where I try to be more funny. And then I use Instagram just as my diary. I pull some jokes on there, but I think people have a better sense of humor on Twitter.

With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.

I love to work. I love doing standup.

I did sketch comedy for years. I've always enjoyed it.

I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.

When I used to watch comedians with my dad, he laid it all out for me. He wanted to be a comedian himself, and he was so funny. We'd watch stand-up on TV, and he'd tell me the subtext of what they were saying.

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting.

The jokes I used to do on 'Sex and the City' were always comic character things, and they were rarely hard jokes. As soon as you go up in front of people, it demands laughter.

I started performing as a stand-up comedian on my own in the mid-1990s.

I like to do comedy. It's my real passion. I want to make people laugh.

I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.

I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.

I love comedy. God has given me this platform.

I think comedians start off as pranksters or something.

When I was in college I did a lot of comedy.