Taylor Tomlinson Quotes

Taylor Tomlinson

Profession : Comedian

Birth : November 4, 1993

People really want to laugh, and whatever resonates with them is good.

Taylor Tomlinson

I started doing stand-up at 16 and I didn't have the life experience to talk about politics or social issues.

Taylor Tomlinson

If I can write a joke about something that happened that was awful, it's like OK that happened and I have this money.

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I just want to talk about darker subjects.

Taylor Tomlinson

It took me a long time to accept that I needed to figure out something that worked for me. Because I had tried getting on antidepressants a few times over the years and it didn't work and I would give up.

Taylor Tomlinson

So much of religion is like, 'Well if you were praying about it, if you were good with God, that would fix everything.'

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The way I started doing comedy is not a very cool, rock and roll story.

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I like how much better being on the road makes you at comedy. I like how strong you get on it. What I don't like is how isolating it is and how hard it is on your brain and your body.

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If there were a way to get great at headlining without going anywhere and sleeping in your own bed every night, I would absolutely do that.

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I think the Internet has made it so that you have so much control over your own career - which I think is really important and cool.

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I was really sheltered growing up.

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I think once I found stand-up, it was like, 'Oh... this is so much better than acting! I get to perform but I get to do whatever I want. I don't have to say anything I don't want to say. There's nobody here to let down or be let down by. It's all on me up here.'

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I was a really shy, scared kid. I was really, really anxious to go on stage for the first five years that I was doing this. But, once I was up there, I felt like myself. I felt like, 'Oh. This is who I actually am. This is who I want to be.'

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People are tackling harder subjects now on stage. In part because, with the Internet, everything's been done. So if you're just doing observational comedy or political comedy, it is really hard to come up with a take or an angle that nobody else has done.

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I think that if you are a very conservative Christian parent, and your kid deviates from what is so important to you, that is very painful. And then it's probably 100 times more painful when they are a public figure, for lack of a better term.

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There were churches that would not let me tell jokes about being abstinent. I'm like, 'I'm promoting the thing you like!' But they wouldn't want you to even refer to anything like that.

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I missed that bubble of invincibility that a lot of young people have, particularly in college. When people look back and they go, Oh, man, I took so many risks. I was so, so dumb. I almost died three times, I don't have any of those stories because I'm waking up every day like, Is today the day? Is today the day?

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I thought 'Girls' was amazing. Did I relate to a lot of it? No. Those were not my experiences.

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I watch old clips sometimes and I'm like, I think I'm making people sad.

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I thought I was going to be comedy 'Tiger King.'

Taylor Tomlinson