Jeff Dunham Quotes

I don't get on stage and give a social diatribe. I am a performer and an entertainer.

I still love to walk on stage and make people laugh, and I work very, very hard at it, and I take it seriously.

I got to a point where I wanted to have some dignity in what I'm saying onstage. I want people to hear what I'm saying, regardless of whether or not it gets a laugh. That became a lot more rewarding than straight acting could ever be for me.

I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.

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

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

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

About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.

Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wanted to. And so could I.

I never thought I'd do comedy, ever, in a million years. I always thought comedy was just for fun - to me, the real stuff was the real dramatic stuff. Now I know it's all valuable. There's a real excitement, a good feeling when you can make people laugh.

I'm going to be Dog, and I'm going to be an entertainer. And I'm going to make mistakes.

Ever since I was 2 or 3, I loved to perform for people. I would walk up to another table in a restaurant and crack a joke, sing a song, do a dance, or something entertaining, and the 'audience' would almost always smile and laugh.

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.

I love standing at a microphone and making a room of people laugh. That's the part of the work I love; everything else is extraneous.

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

At the age of 11 I did my first open mic show, and it was one of those lightning-bolt moments where I suddenly found what I wanted to do.

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

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

I'd been doing standup since college.

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

The beautiful thing about stand-up advice is that it applies to anybody, any gender, any race, any age. The best thing you can do - everybody will tell you - is get on stage as much as you can. I would add to that: get on stage as much as you can - with the people you admire.

I definitely enjoyed being in front of an audience, making people laugh, and telling stories, so when I realized I could do all three at the same time, that was it.

That's the one thing I think I have figured out pretty decently well is I'm a performer. I've always been an entertainer; y'know, growing up, that's all I've ever done.

I think anybody in front of a crowd is a comedian.

One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There's so many things that I can not do in life, and this is, like, the one thing that I have mastery over. It's my world. And anybody who's coming to the show, it's like they're coming because they know that this is my world.