Arthur Smith Quotes

I see myself as a comedian rather than a female comedian. I happen to be a woman, but I am a comedian by trade.

I had no desire to be a stand-up comic until I decided to do it.

I never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it.

I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I do, it's what I've been doing and it's what I'm going to keep doing.

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

Getting up in front of the toughest crowds, you know, playing pubs in South Armagh - where people didn't necessarily even know what stand-up comedy was - you had to force yourself to do it. It went against every instinct in your body, but you did it anyway.

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

If you haven't truly died a million times as a comic you haven't gigged enough!

I wasn't properly performing in Canada. I was just starting out, and when everyone starts out, they're terrible. I'm sure there are some Kellyanne Conway videos of me just really dying on a stage.

I am the smartest comedian in the history of the world.

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.

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

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

I started performing as a stand-up comedian on my own in the mid-1990s.

I found out I had a real love for comedy and comedy writing. The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing.

Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it.

I never thought I'd end up doing comedy, but actually, it's been something I've really relished the challenge of and ended up doing quite a bit of.

As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit.

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

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up.

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.

You can't be a proper comic unless you've been out on stage and felt the fear.

I think when I was young, let's call it high school, and even before that, I just loved comedy, and I loved comedians. I grew up watching Laurel and Hardy. That's really a long time ago. I loved Jerry Lewis. I just loved comedians.

I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.