Comedy Ambition Quotes

I had all the intentions of being the next Eddie Murphy.

I used to sneak up to the 8th floor and watch Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo rehearsing 'Saturday Night Live' and could only wonder if I would ever have the chance to be funny. It took me five years to go up the two stories, but it is such a sense of fulfillment to be able to show what I can do on national television.

I think if you ask any of us here, we all dreamed of ending up on Saturday Night Live. I remember thinking, 'I'll just keep doing this as long as I can get away with it.'

You know, I'm playing the Mirage in Vegas, the main room... About 5 percent of all comics end up as the main headliner on the Vegas Strip, so that's a big deal for me. Getting to do my stand-up the way I have this summer is really what I've dreamed of since I was about 10 years old.

I worked for the Comedy Store as an employee trying to become a paid regular. I had this dream of achieving a half hour special on TV.

I'm interested in doing some acting in the future, but it's a distant second to stand up.

I'm looking to be the next comedy mogul.

Obviously those who burn to be professional jesters mean that they want to be successful comedians. And those are always an elite, microscopic portion of the population. But oh, how they try.

I would love to host 'Saturday Night Live.' That's one of my goals in life - just putting that out there. I don't know if I'm funny enough, but we'll see.

I don't want to be ordinary. I'm willing to do the work. I'm willing to suffer the indignities of comedy because I want to be great. I don't want to just be good. I want to be great.

Every comedian wants to play the London Comedy Store, and I was no exception.

It's embarrassing to say you want to be a comedian. Admitting that you want attention and you think you're such a laugh.

My first stand-up experience, like most comics, was horrible. I got booed offstage. I thought I was funnier than I was. But the walk from the back of the room to the stage was the most excited I'd ever been about anything in my life other than kissing a girl. That's how I knew I had to get back onstage and do it again.

I'm a comedian, and I decided I wanted to be a comedian when I was eight years old watching old Saturday Night Live episodes. I never decided to be a rapper because I'm not a rapper.

I was inspired by people telling me I should be a comedian. I tried it and had a really good first set, so I was like, 'OK, I'll do this forever'.

No comedian grows up thinking, 'I hope one day to have a show on CNN.'

The thing is, I always thought I could do stand-up, and so I just stayed focused on the belief that I could succeed.

I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.

I just loved jokes so much as a child. I remember wanting to perform at, like... age seven by reading from a kids' joke book, and my parents being like, 'That's not what standup comedy is,' and me being like, 'Not yet it isn't! I'm going to change the game.'

I knew when I got out of high school that I was going to be a stand-up comic.

My heroes - people like Woody Allen - were stand-up comedians. Therefore, I always felt I should give it a go.

Historically, a successful life in comedy is a dream that's as equally pondered and unpursued as being an astronaut.

I joined a campus competition, as I felt I could do comedy, and I won. Then I started doing standup gigs in 2009 while completing my law degree, but I never told my parents. They only discovered a few years later.

I always wanted to be a comedian and actor.

It's on the bucket list for sure to do a comedy film, even if it was just one line on the lot.