Leslie Nielsen Quotes

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

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.

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

I always felt that my way into comedy would be through my writing rather than my acting.

I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy.

I got into standup because I wanted to be an actor, and then I ended up loving standup for the next eleven years.

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

I've always been funny, but I never considered it as a particular career path until my early 30s, when I realized that hip-hop wasn't going to be the long term.

I didn't have any plan to go into comedy.

I've always wanted to do a real comedy. I haven't done enough, and it seems silly not to do more, considering the fact that people tend to laugh at me.

I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.

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.

I never set out to do a sketch show.

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

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.

When I talk to Steve Martin, he's joyful when he talks about comedy.

I adore doing comedy, I think it's fantastic. I never saw myself doing exclusively comedy.

I don't know what Tracy Morgan does onstage, but I can assure you, it's no act.

At one point when I was very young, when I was first starting out, I thought, 'Well, one day I'll be able to put all the music away and become a real comedian.' But then I realized there are amazing musical comedians out there, that musical comedy is probably something I'll always want to pursue.

When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'

I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.

I'm not an improv guy.

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

At the end of the day, I do think I'm happiest doing comedy. I love it. I know that I can do other things. I love drama as well.