Actors Quote by Christian Finnegan

I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what…

— Roseanne Barr

I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.

— Hannibal Buress

I love stand-up. I look at it as a way to always stay productive. I couldn't imagine only being an actor or a writer.…

— Hannibal Buress

I never decided I wanted to be an actor. I just started doing standup because I love standup. Everything else has sort of been…

— Kumail Nanjiani

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…

— Demetri Martin

I got into standup because I wanted to be an actor, and then I ended up loving standup for the next eleven years.

— Jermaine Fowler

Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would…

— Patton Oswalt

Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one…

— Kevin Hart

No, I never really set out to be a stand up. I wanted to be a writer of some sort. I thought I'd do…

— Josh Widdicombe

Stand-up is hard. Or to keep it at a certain level is hard: I have no writers but me.

— Jerry Seinfeld

Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said…

— Eric Bana