Pete Holmes Quotes

The thing I love about being on stage is I can do whatever I want.

When I do comedy, I lose all inhibition and introspection. I no longer care.

The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period.

I come from a much freer kind of performance thing, where I rely on my own improv and my own sense of humor.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

I'm trying to be a comedian, you know?

Stand-up is my favorite thing I've ever done. There's so much independence.

The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.

I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep being lucky enough to entertain people anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium.

Onstage is the one time in my day that I can let it all out.

I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate.

I love stand up and it keeps me grounded, to say the stuff I have been thinking without anyone changing it.

The theater, for me, has always been a place where I'm free to be more creative, a place to sharpen my tools.

Stand-up is my baby.

Doing comedy is still in my veins; that's my first love.

I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don't get to write the script, you get hired. Music represents me better. I'm not acting; I'm just expressing myself.

I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.

My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.

I don't need a stage to perform. We just need something to stand on.

I really like doing stand-up, because it gives you an immense amount of freedom. You haven't got anyone telling you what to do. It's great to have that much power over what you do. You don't have that in television.

I needed to be more self-determining, and the most self-determining thing you can do in comedy is stand-up.

Comedy's been really liberating for me because I've been able to sneak the singing part in through the back door.

It is hard to find something where you can go off as much as I do in stand-up, but I think stand-up allows me that freedom where you can really go off and have a good time.

A lot of comedy is really DIY. You're kind of doing it yourself.

I've learned to have absolutely no regrets about any jokes I've ever done.