Hari Kondabolu Quotes

I've been doing stand-up since '89.

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.

Some people use stand-up to get something else in their careers, but it's truly the art form of stand-up I love.

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

But I love stand-up, and it's where I came from creatively, so it's something I never want to walk away from.

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

Stand-up is my foundation. That's where it started at. And I love it because it's personal. It's mine. It's all me. It's my experience in life.

Being on 'Whitney' is a job, but stand-up is my life. I could never stop. There's an art to it. I love having strangers laugh with me, so as long as I can continue doing that, I'll be happy. Working on a show and collectively sharing ideas with a cast is great, but stand-up is my first love.

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

I prefer being known for my stand-up because I write it. I love being an actor, and saying other people's words is great. But then, when I do stand-up, I love getting my own point of view out there.

I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn't see that as a job description anywhere.

My first love is doing my own comedy stuff.

I don't write anything. It's all done onstage, which is why I always tell younger comics that they just have to go do it. You have to get up, talk, and take a thought or a word and just expound, and you find it in there. I don't sit down and write.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 don't really do stand-up.

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

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 don't know that I'd be a comedian if I stayed in Canada.