Heather Doerksen Quotes

I really like to do comedy, and I did comedy the first 2 years after I graduated college, so I really love it and appreciate it.

Heather Doerksen

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• Stanford's law school application wasn't the standard combination of college transcript, LSAT score, and essays. It required a personal sign-off from the dean of your college: You had to submit a form, completed by the dean, attesting that you weren't a loser.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • School
  • Law
  • College

• First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Comedy
  • Care
  • Wise

• I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Time
  • College
  • Risk

• People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• We can't accept that it's O.K. if only some kids get to go to college.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Kids
  • College
  • Accept

• I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Funny

• 'Last Man Standing' is overall a lot of comedy. And I love doing that.

  

  Kaitlyn Dever
  • Man
  • Comedy
  • Doing

• Comedy is basically self-deprecation.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Comedy
  • Basically

• Telling stories has been a compulsion of mine since I could physically say, 'Once upon a time...' But in high school, I realized I could study creative writing in college and actually pursue it as a viable career.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Time
  • Writing
  • School

• When we developed the 'Seinfeld' show, we took a bet on Jerry Seinfeld, who was not a household name. But Jerry had a voice. He was appearing on 'Late Night', on 'The Tonight Show', had some commercials out there, his voice of observational comedy, looking at the world around him, that voice was really starting to come into its own.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • World
  • Night
  • Comedy

• I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • People
  • Children
  • Today

• Even if you didn't see the movie, you'd see two words you'd never seen put together before - comedy and Muslim. Comedy is friendly - it's the least offensive word in our language.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Together
  • Movie
  • Words

• My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.

  

  Pauly Shore
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Comedy

• Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.

  

  Constance Baker Motley
  • Men
  • Women
  • School

• I had just been in some repressive situations - the black middle-class college scene and the crazy United States Air Force - and so I just felt like getting out of that. I thought, now, that I wanted to be a writer. I had something that I wanted to do, that I was interested in doing, so I wanted to pursue that.

  

  Amiri Baraka
  • Black
  • College
  • Crazy

• It's a young man's game - standup comedy.

  

  Bradley Walsh
  • Game
  • Comedy

• Dan Curry is the funniest guy in the world. I can sit in a room with him for hours, and he's just cracking me up constantly. And Kitao is the next Terry Gilliam. A lot of comedy directors are just comedic writers, but they don't have any sense of aesthetic or visual vocabulary.

  

  Eric Andre
  • Up
  • World
  • Guy

• I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way.

  

  Kevin Eubanks
  • Comedy
  • Serious

• I'm doing stand-up comedy. I'm working on a one-woman show about how I don't like my baby. There is a period of time where a baby is born where the next 3 months is harrowing. A lot of people say it's the most wonderful time, but for me it was harrowing.

  

  Mary Lynn Rajskub
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I was in love with a lot of people, because I was a student of the game of comedy - Carol Burnett, Jack Benny, Red Skelton, Jackie Gleason, Don Rickles, Red Foxx, Moms Mabley - who gets no credit, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, George Kirby. I loved them all, and I used to just take a page out of all of them.

  

  Bernie Mac
  • People
  • Game
  • Comedy

• My mission in life was to make sure that there were no women walking around who didn't know me personally.

  

  Lorenzo Lamas
  • Life
  • Women
  • Walking

• I never thought I would do something in Hollywood after I started with a series in the West, which was a small stint.

  

  Ali Fazal
  • Small

• I really like to do comedy, and I did comedy the first 2 years after I graduated college, so I really love it and appreciate it.

  

  Heather Doerksen
  • College
  • Comedy