Hannibal Buress Quotes

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

But I love stand-up, and it's where I came from creatively, so it's something I never want to walk away from.

I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist.

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

I didn't become a comedian to work this hard.

Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it's hard to turn away. Then, of course, you're hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.

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

In the mid-1970s, there was this huge boom of stand-up comedy throughout North America. I went to see a show at a club called Yuk-Yuks, in Toronto, and I was just fascinated. I ended up coming back for amateur hour on a Monday at midnight and got up there without any thought as to what might come of it.

Deep inside, I am desperate to do comedy.

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've been doing comedy longer than I haven't been doing comedy, as I was performing for three years before I even got on 'The Tonight Show.' There's truly nothing like it; it's intense and exhilarating, even though it looks so casual.

If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.

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

The minute I started doing comedy, the doors opened.

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

I was lucky enough to find stand-up really early in life. And I'm so grateful that I did, because the second I found it, I was like, 'I know what I want to do'.

I don't know that I'd be a comedian if I stayed in Canada.

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

From the age of 14, I remember thinking I wanted to be a comedian. But that was like saying I wanted to be an astronaut. It felt like a million miles away, something I could never do, but would be great to.

I never thought about 'being' in comedy when I grew up, because I didn't know it was a real job. But looking back, it's the only thing I ever really cared about.

As a stand-up comic, you have to do the road.

I probably wouldn't have pursued comedy further if my friends didn't tell me that my getting kicked off the stage was the funniest thing they'd ever seen.

A lot of people get into stand-up as a back door into acting or something. But I really like writing jokes and telling jokes.

But I just think I was lucky enough to figure out early on that I wanted to do comedy, so that's what I put all my effort into.

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