Adam DeVine
Related DEMETRI MARTIN I started to realize that comedy is what I really wanted to do, but I didn't want to do stand-up... D'ARCY CARDEN I really don't want to do anything that resembles stand-up comedy. But I will agree to say that ... LUCAS NEFF I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I d... DAVE ATTELL I don't come from a comedy background or a stand-up background, but I think that sometimes there... DARREN BOYD I don't like doing things by halves, and I realised you can't do stand-up comedy part-time. DEIRDRE O'KANE BILL BURR I can't tell if I want to be a rapper who's funny because I kind of enjoy just doing really ... AWKWAFINA I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy's underrated, I think, by actors, you... RALPH BROWN I love comedy, but it has to be hysterical and really amusing; I'm not really a big fan of roman... RACHEL HURD-WOOD TAMRON HALL I don't want to play earnest. I'd rather play somebody who's kind of sleazy. It's mu... JACK COLEMAN I never wanted to be a model. I never wanted to be a serious actress. I started off doing comedy. I ... AMANDA BYNES QUENTIN TARANTINO DANIEL TOSH I'm not a comedian, I'm not a stand-up and I don't come from a comedy background. I am a... DARREN BOYD My whole life, growing up, I always wanted to be in comedy. I never felt comfortable doing the '... DUSTIN MILLIGAN BO BURNHAM I'd love, love, love to do a comedy. I can't imagine being on set and being happy and cheerf... MAIKA MONROE A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves... CARLY CRAIG EDDIE VAN HALEN DYLAN MORAN TOM CRUISE DENNIS MILLER Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON I'd love to do a comedy. I'm terrified of comedy. I don't think I'm funny, but I gue... JARED PADALECKI I was already in a band, and the teachers called my mum in and said: 'Abbey's so clever, it&... ABBEY CLANCY My comedy comes from pain. I can't stand to see someone hurting. BERNIE MAC When I was really little, I wanted to be a taxi driver or a bus driver; I loved the fact that I coul... ELIZA DOOLITTLE SHARON GLESS I knew I wanted to be an actress, but I hadn't ever really told anyone. I'd always got quite... KIMBERLEY NIXON KEVIN HART I don't set goals. Like, that's what I want to be doing however many years from now. I do wh... AYUMI HAMASAKI JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL Frankly, I think if I won the lottery and won a billion dollars, I'd still want to continue doin... CAROLL SPINNEY STEPHANIE SIGMAN I love boxing. I really respect the guys and admire the guys who do it. But, I'm very, very happ... HOLT MCCALLANY One of the biggest misconceptions about me is that I'm a comedian, which I'm not. A comedian... EUGENE LEVY DANIELA BOBADILLA I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just... PATRICIA RICHARDSON I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was rea... CAITY LOTZ It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON I want to get up and ride my horses, do what I love doing. I don't want to be recognised. CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up ... NATASHA LEGGERO AMBER BENSON JULIA STILES When I was coming up, I just wanted to play baseball and I'm doing what I love to do most. How c... MIGUEL CABRERA Yet there are some people - Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he's a really funny guy, b... BOB SAGET My father had the bug. Ever since I can remember walking, he was waking me up at 5 in the morning to... DUSTIN YELLIN JOAQUIN PHOENIX I went from an unemployed actor's life to doing stand-up comedy, and that was fortuitous. It'... CATHERINE TATE ROBERT SMITH DAVE DAVIES To be honest with you, the dramatic side is more fun to play because I don't get to do it as oft... ERICA ASH I've been doing stand-up just about every night since I started in 1989. It's my home base. ... JUDAH FRIEDLANDER BRIE LARSON I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy. GRAHAM NORTON It's music. It's supposed to be fun and inspirational. You have to be inspired. If I did it ... MAX MARTIN I'd love to do comedy. And I think I have pretty good sense of comic timing, so I'd really l... EMILY PERKINS I can do more than just stand-up comedy, and the only way I'll be able to show that is if I do i... DANE COOK BO BURNHAM BAT FOR LASHES The book is called 'Thanks for Nothing' and it's really the story of how I got into come... JACK DEE I had known that I'd wanted to be an actor from a very early age, but I had always known that I ... BILLY BURKE ADAM CAROLLA I love my work, and I feel fortunate to be doing a job I love, but it isn't the centre of my lif... NATASHA LITTLE I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in,... S. J. ROZAN DANA CARVEY TANA FRENCH MATT DILLON If I wasn't acting, I'd try and be a footballer. I wouldn't be a musician because I can&... JAMIE BLACKLEY I want to do all kinds of things. I want to do some comedy. I'd love to do a romantic comedy, an... KEVIN ALEJANDRO Other than friends and family, my favorite things are New York and stand-up. I love doing comedy in ... AZIZ ANSARI I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's w... AYUMI HAMASAKI JAY PHAROAH GENE SIMMONS It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON CAMERON DALLAS I don't particularly consider myself an actor. I have no training. I love doing it, but I would ... DAVID RAKOFF RAIN VIN DIESEL After doing comedy for a while and knowing how hard it is to do physical comedy right, I learned how... CARLY CRAIG JAMES FRANCO I don't love comedy but I can watch someone who's kind of interesting forever. I think a wai... BRUCE MCCULLOCH DAVID THEWLIS JENNY ECLAIR JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'... GABRIEL IGLESIAS AUSTIN MAHONE I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns an... ZACH GILFORD I can't imagine myself doing something like 'Narnia' again. I would love to do something... WILLIAM MOSELEY I used to devour a lot of stand-up comedy in my cousin's basement. He had cable and I didn't... SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO HULK HOGAN PINK BILL BURR JOHN C. REILLY I can't cut off an ear everyday. Do the Van Gogh here and the Mozart there. Anyway it's exha... MARTIN KIPPENBERGER I think that people who do enjoy my stand-up comedy and the people who get it and the people who are... DANE COOK I did a film called 'Puccini for Beginners,' which was a romantic comedy, and I always wante... ELIZABETH REASER
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But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an ... 
You know, it wasn't even that I'm a funny guy, I just loved stand-up comedy and I wanted to ... 
I love edgy comedy. 'Coming to America' still gets me and 'Friday.' I watch old Rich... 
I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can't do storyboards because I can... 
I never want to cannibalize my act, and I'm really excited that I am going to be able to perform... 
Comedy doesn't really matter that much; I know that. I treat it like an adult - I don't trea... 
Everything I did is because I wanted to do it. If I weren't playing this arena, if I were playin... 
I really can't describe what my stand-up is like - people see it and they say it's like that... 
As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I... 
I'm a comedian, for God's sake. Viewers shouldn't trust me. And you know what? They'... 
Yeah, even a black comedy. Where it's a little eerie. I'd love to do that. But there are abo... 
Stand-up comedy is mine: it's my entity; it's my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do ... 
'Hedwig' was pretty much all the things I wanted to do that other people said I probably sho... 
I'd love to be in a real boxing match, but I can't because of my face. I'm an actor! 
I'd love to do a really juicy drama that's just really real. On the comedy side, I'd lov... 
I wanted to create a heroine that was flawed. I wanted her to be a real person. She's selfish, s... 
It's actually really great to be a student and an actor, because I get to do this job that I lov... 
I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to d... 
I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up... 
How could I not love my own brother? I just can't stand to be with him. 
I won't do things for money. I can't. So I'll hold out and say, in my mind, 'There&#... 
There's a part of me that wishes I could go out in T-shirt and jeans, 'cause I really love P... 
In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked n... 
I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you... 
Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out ... 
I like doing comedy, I like doing drama. Naturally I like to do, I like doing dramas, I like conflic... 
A rap is a tweaked version of comedy, because comedy came first. People weren't spitting before ... 
I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I... 
I'd previously done 'Expelled,' and that was more on the comedy side, so I really wanted... 
I've always wanted to be a singer and an actor. I will continue to concentrate on both because I... 
If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my fi... 
When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn't want to ge... 
I've always tended to write comedy, but I'd hate to just write some kind of sitcom or a ligh... 
I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn o... 
I think, before 'Watchmen,' I was the guy from 'Grey's Anatomy' who's a pret... 
Music is my life. I love doing it, so I just do it nonstop all day. And with dancing, I wanted to pu... 
I feel really good right now. It will really be a tough decision. It's so hard to give up what y... 
I'd love to have time to do my hair, honestly. I'd love to be Victoria Beckham just for one ... 
You have to understand how bad I wanted to be a comedian, how much I loved doing it. I still can'... 
Here's the thing, with comedy - and I learned this from Will Ferrell - you can't be ashamed.... 
Hot girls have so many options. Sitting at home alone any night of the week and searching the Intern... 
My parents are very cool and wildly supportive - maybe almost too much. I want to tell them to chill... 
I'm such a huge 'Arrested Development' fan. 
I could have coached better. 
I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame. 
No one comes into our house and pushes us around. 
Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear... 
I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room o... 
When I was getting started, I was so busy just fighting my way through, and I was under contract at ... 
When you wear a mask and create a character, nothing will pigeonhole you faster. 
Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about i... 
You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care. 
I like sitting and writing with my buddies. 
My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is g... 
Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's... 
I have feelings that are to the right, and I have feelings that land on the left side of the aisle. ... 
I get depressed at airports. 
I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever. 
Transitioning to being an unemployed film actor is different, but it's fun and I've been loo... 
I have a pretty lousy voice. 
I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I go... 
When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was ... 
I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected. 