Bob Newhart Quotes

When I started stand-up, the first thing I did was to take an improv class.

There aren't any concrete steps to becoming a comic.

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.

If I had to design a career for myself, I would have done 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 adore doing comedy, I think it's fantastic. I never saw myself doing exclusively comedy.

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

As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian.

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

After college, I knew I wanted to work in comedy, so the first thing I did was go to where the comedy was. I moved from Charlottesville to Chicago, because that's where The Second City and Improv Olympics are. You have to go wherever you need to go to study what interests you.

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.

My goal is just to become a better comedian.

If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.

To become the best comedian, I must be well-rounded.

I did, like, one or two plays in high school, but I don't think I realized I wanted to do comedy until I got to college, and I started doing improv and saw the Upright Citizens Brigade perform and did workshops with them.

I've always been a fan of comedy. I've always enjoyed it. It's something I'm very passionate about; it's like lifeblood to me. I had to pursue it. I thought I had a little bit of talent, and if I could make a living at it, I would do it. It's worked out so far.

I knew at an early age that I wanted to pursue comedy.

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 have always been a comedian - that has always been my job and it is what I want to do for a long time to come.

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

I'd been doing standup since college.

I did a standup show called 'Show Me the Funny,' so from that I got some TV stuff and people would book me for gigs. I wasn't really good enough at that point, so had to catch up with expectations.

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

The beautiful thing about stand-up advice is that it applies to anybody, any gender, any race, any age. The best thing you can do - everybody will tell you - is get on stage as much as you can. I would add to that: get on stage as much as you can - with the people you admire.