Michelle Wolf Quotes

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

When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.

If I were to just focus on stand-up, I could actually, paradoxically enough, be home way more, because I would leave on a Friday, go do a couple theaters Friday, Saturday, maybe Sunday, come home.

Any comic is a very good actor. Look at Don Rickles. He is saying the same joke every night for 20 years and making it look like he just thought of it.

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

I spent 25 years as a stand-up comedian.

I've been doing stand-up just about every night since I started in 1989. It's my home base. But I'm into doing comedy in all mediums, platforms and situations.

I mean, I guess I started during the comedy boom, so it was literally like, on Sunday you could decide you wanted to be a comic, and on Monday, you could be on stage.

I had no desire to be a stand-up comic until I decided to do it.

I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I do, it's what I've been doing and it's what I'm going to keep doing.

I had some friends that tried it down there, and I went to a couple of open mics, and I just kind of got this... this sick urge to try it instead of just watching it.

Everyone forgets comedians are actors. There's no question about it. A Robin Williams cannot say the same line every night for 40 weeks and make it sound fresh unless he's doing an acting job.

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.

You know, my first album, some of those jokes I'd done for twelve years because I couldn't throw 'em out.

I always tell comics you got to hang with your stand-up.

People who want to do stand-up from the start - I mean that's an extremely self-centred thing to want, isn't it?

I never became a road comic.

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

With stand-up you can just be yourself on stage. And ideally, you can't see the crowd most of the time - it's just lights in your face. But I still have had terrible stage fright.

The moment for me, thinking I might actually want to do comedy professionally, was when I did public speaking at school. I found out I was good at getting up in front of class. In the fifth grade, I did a speech on comedy.

Every comic is taught that you're supposed to have a great seven-minute set and then get a sitcom. And I don't want to get the sitcom.

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.

A lot of people get into stand-up as a back door into acting or something. But I really like writing jokes and telling jokes.

I've been entertaining men with my comedy for many, many years, and I don't plan on stopping.

Stand-up comedy is something that you have to strive to do, multiple times a night, every night, to be good.