Quotes from Jermaine Fowler

I started pursuing stand-up comedy in 12th grade.

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

You can't teach standup comedy. You can teach someone how to formulate a joke, but making it funny is different.

I don't know what the secret to doing standup well is, but I do know the goal is to be yourself as much as possible. And working harder than everyone else.

I worked check-to-check, worked in dead-end jobs my whole life before I got into stand-up, and even during stand-up, I was working at a retail job and Starbucks, all those places.

I did my first set at a talent show, and I couldn't finish because the judges didn't like my jokes. They were 'offensive.'

'V for Vendetta' is an amazing movie, and it had an obvious message, but it was done so perfectly. I got out of the movie, and I wanted to march so hard. I wanted to be an activist.

I've never been the guy to sit back and wait until someone approved something I was passionate about.

I've always loved the idea of the rookie cop vs. the grizzled veteran. A lot of comedy can be mined from that.

When I got nominated class clown in school, I remember my mom said, 'Don't be no clown.' So I went to my vice principal in my school and said, 'Can we change this to just the funniest?'

I like glazed donuts.

I'm pretty much a comic that dwells on what happened to me instead of what's happening to me.

I'm a comic; we get hecklers every night! It's really just part of the job.

I speak from experience, and I speak from the heart, and I speak only what I know and what I understand; and on what I don't know and what I don't understand, I'm a good listener.