Iliza Shlesinger Quotes

I'm probably more of a stand-up comedian than an actor.

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

When I was, like, 15, I realized there could be a career in making people laugh - like, you could get paid to do it. That was insane to me.

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

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

My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.

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

People see me on the 'Daily Show' or 'About a Boy'. But the reality is that I only got into this business to do standup comedy.

If I tried to do comedy for the rest of my career, I would not be very successful.

I started comedy in 2006. I didn't even think it was a thing I could do.

Being a comedian is probably the only job apart from undertaking that isn't age restricted.

I don't do stand-up anymore.

For me, I wanted to write a book about getting into comedy. That's what I wanted to write.

I am the smartest comedian in the history of the world.

Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.

I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.

I see myself as a comedian rather than a female comedian. I happen to be a woman, but I am a comedian by trade.

I started performing as a stand-up comedian on my own in the mid-1990s.

I found out I had a real love for comedy and comedy writing. The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing.

I started stand-up in 2007. I'd done a couple of gigs before that, but not much, and I was in a sketch group at Uni from 2005 as well.

Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.

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

Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.

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

But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up.