Pete Holmes Quotes

I always told my parents, 'Just give me till I'm 27 to do comedy, to make it'.

Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic but don't give it more attention than it deserves.

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 love comedy and I did a few gigs here and there but it never really took off. It was too scary.

I always had one goal, and that was to be a real funny stand-up comic, and that's pretty much what I'm doing. And everything else is kind of like gravy - TV, movies.

I'm pretty hard on myself. Every now and again I'll go on my IMDB or update my resume and I'm like, "man, I've done a lot of work."

Sometimes I have that kind of critical mind to myself as well. This is because there are times where I have to do things that I don't wish to.

I regret that I do not have the dignity of Ricardo Montalban, the class of Dean Martin, or the humor of Bill Cosby. I do have the heart of a lion.

I always ask myself, what do I need to prove? I won the fight.

9p.m. My flat. Feel very strange and empty. Is all very well thinking everything is going to be different when you come back but then it is all the same. Suppose I have to make it different. But what am I going to do with my life? I know. Will eat some cheese.

My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything?

There comes a time in the lives of those destined for greatness when we must stand before the mirror of meaning and ask: Why, having been endowed with the courageous heart of a lion, do we live as mice?

And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer.

I think there is a part of me that's always a little bit like, "Why would I torture myself? Just in case you forgot how big the shoes are you're walking in, take a look again". Like, I think I pussy out. So, I'm not that kind of person.

It didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then. It just made you a quitter. Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.

I want to be able to look at myself in the mirror and know I took everyone on.

There’s nothing more humbling than seeing your best quotes in a list, and thinking they could have been written by a coma patient with a keyboard and spasms.

All of US sometimes feel that one of the most difficult things in the world is to talk to US about US in an effort to help US.

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

I understood now. This voice, the one that had been trying to get my attention all this time, calling out to me, begging me to hear it - it wasn't Will's. It was mine.

How come I end up where I started How come I end up where I belong... You used to be alright What happened?

I'd be worried about myself as a human if I hadn't been nervous.

Never cease doubting. When the doubts stop it is because you have stopped journeying.

I have insecurities. But whatever I'm insecure about, I don't dissect it, but I'll go after it and say, "What am I afraid of?" I bet the average successful person can tell you they've failed so much more than they've had success. I've had far more failures than I've had successes. With every commercial I've gotten, there were 200 I didn't get. You have to go after what you're afraid of.

I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection