Dustin Diamond Quotes

I got into stand up just to do stand up because I love stand up.

I love writing stand-up so much and tinkering and looking for ideas.

'Where's Bill going?' He's going to comedy death. Boom! He pops out of it with another joke. It's my particular style.

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

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

I was a born club comic. Radio and TV and stage were fine, but I found my real home in cabaret.

Stand-up is an amazing art form, I think, because it's all about you having complete control of the situation, but absolutely none.

Performing comedy, you develop a rhythm of ideas and laughs. I live for it.

I remember doing a lot of comedy. I always loved that feeling when you do something on stage and you can feel the vibe of the audience turn, and they start laughing. It's how you know something's not right, and how to fix it, or how to make the moment stronger or funnier.

[Stand-up] might be ballsy, but I'd rather not be an actor. Actors are tools.

I had always been heavily influenced by stand-up.

What's great about stand-up unlike athletes and other things when you get old you get old and rusty.

I think stand-up comedy is this - it's this kind of indulgence and narcissism.

Stand-up comedy - I love this job, and I gotta tell you, folks - knock wood - it's been working. 'Cause I was one of those kind of people, even when I had a regular job, I couldn't even call in sick right. You know, I was like, 'Hello? Yeah, I can't come in today. I have scurvy.

I've always had my voice as a comic. I was never that into politics, or prop comedy.

When you're a young comedian the first thing you want to do is get a laugh.

I became a specialist at comedic one-liners.

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

I do comedy shows. I make fun of myself, first of all.

I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.

I always wanted to be a popular comedian.

My first love is doing my own comedy stuff.

If you look at vaudeville in theaters vamping between acts, it was always jokes written and banter in the moment.

I like stand-up. I've done it since I was a teenager, so it's kind of my first job and first kind of creative way to express myself.

I don't do stand-up anymore.