Roseanne Barr Quotes

Lewis Black taught me stand-up.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

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

I don't have any writers. I never get a laugh with somebody else's jokes. I can't do it justice.

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

I didn't really know how to write jokes, so I just told weird, long stories about being tall and beautiful and wealthy in New York. I'd tell them very seriously, but I kind of looked like a drag queen at the time with big wigs and crazy 12-inch platform heels.

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

When I got on Stern I realized that this was the one job where you could be really honest and open, almost like Richard Pryor or something. You can be honest about your life and get laughs.

Regardless of what I do, whether I write a book or whether I act or whether I host, I'll always do stand-up comedy because those moments, that's what I crave. If I do something funny, and I hear a crowd laugh in that moment, we're all sharing the exact same experience and the exact same feeling.

If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.

I'm not an artist. I tell inappropriate stories and jokes and I try to make people laugh.

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

I wanted to be a comedian.

Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.

When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that.

I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.

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.

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.

It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.

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

I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.

I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. I've got no plans to stop doing it.

I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes.