Sofia Vergara Quotes

I tick that cliched box of being the class clown. I've always done impressions and characters, so I'm very lucky that I get to do that as a career now.

To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's the best job in the world.

I made people laugh as a kid, but that's not how you make a living.

I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons.

The thing I gravitated to was being the class clown. It was very competitive.

I made a living out of being a class clown.

Like other kids wanted to become firemen or astronauts, I wanted to make people laugh.

I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing.

When I was at youth theatre and drama school, I never thought people would mistake me for a stand-up.

I don't care about how I look; I'm dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so - my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I had, all my training is geared toward making people laugh, and I didn't care about being cool.

I never set out to do a sketch show.

I think I always was a bit of a class clown, but I don't know how successful I was at that. I always think, when I read about people being class clowns, I imagine them being actually very funny, and I don't know that I was. But I tried to be, I think.

Some people use stand-up to get something else in their careers, but it's truly the art form of stand-up I love.

I couldn't fight, and I wasn't particularly interested in the academic. So I started doing satiric bits in the school bathroom. Guys would cut class to come and see me.

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

I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.

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 don't think any of us think of ourselves as artists or actors - clowns, we'll accept that label.

I'm not an artist. I tell inappropriate stories and jokes and I try to make people laugh.

I was a class clown.

Comedians are the monkeys of acting. When you go to the zoo, everybody loves the monkey exhibit.

The stand up, everything was accidental. I never grew up and was the class clown and had to get the attention. It was - it really is, I have a career despite myself.

You know, I never knew if I had any talent when I started in this business. My first job was being a page at The Tonight Show. I saw Jack Paar come out one night and sit on the edge of his desk and talk about what he'd done the night before. I thought, 'I can do that!' I used to do that on a street corner in the Bronx with all my buddies.

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

To me, comedy is a great occupation because I don't really worry that much about what other people think of me.