Elayne Boosler Quotes

I like LA because it has a giant supply of great comedians.

I am a comedian and I started in stand-up when I was 22.

Comedy is crowded. There are hundreds of comedians in every place in the world.

I think comedy is difficult, and I'm amazed so many people want to do it. I'll be buying jeans and somebody will say, "I'm a comedian" - the guy selling you the jeans. The desire to be a comedian is weird. I found it weird myself to want to be one; I was a schoolboy when I wanted to be one but I didn't know how to do it. That was 50 years ago, so times have changed greatly. There seems to be a long line of people desperate to do it and most of them are quite good.

I like to read, but otherwise I'm just your average, self-obsessed comedian. It's pretty much all I think about.

I really wanted to, but I just didn't understand how people became comedians. I kind of thought it was something you were born into. And so I wanted to be a veterinarian or an architect. I wanted to be in a band, and for some reason I could understand how you could be in a band because I had guitars and all my friends played music. Comedy was a secret want, but it wasn't anything I pursued.

I've spent the last few years just really actively pursuing comedy and that's something I always wanted to know how to do.

We live in a fun time with so many ways to express yourself, you would be crazy to be a comedian and not check them all out.

I didn't really get into comedy until a couple months before I started doing comedy.

I think comedy is on an organic upsurge right now because when I started, it was 1978 at The Comedy Store and Letterman had just stopped emceeing his morning show.

Everyone thinks I'm a comedian - which I am and are. I was born into a comedic family but I'm trained as an actor.

If you're into comedy, you will know what the show is about. We have so many comedy geeks, comedy enthusiasts, fanatical people who go to comedy festivals and follow comedians, and really treat it like rock 'n' roll - which it can be, but more like the geeky rock 'n' roll.

I'm friends with a lot of comedians, but we don't talk about material. Most comedians I know don't watch a lot of other comedy.

I thought she was the funniest woman, and I believed being a comedian was the most exciting thing you could be.

I often say that ... I'm just involved in comedy, so I can be around it.

Stand-up comedy in the end, unlike the rest of the entertainment industry, is a meritocracy. There's a certain level of undeniability you can work toward.

All of my life doing interviews, comedy has been my favorite thing, comedians are my favorite people.

I always loved comedy, but it never seemed like something that I could do professionally.

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

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

When you're young as a comic, you don't have a lot of leverage.

Um, I'm just naturally super-funny. No, not really. I've never been in The Groundlings or anything.

From 1987 to 1992, I was on the road for 40 weeks a year playing comedy clubs, and that was during the 'comedy boom.'

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

The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers.