Matt Rife

“Even I get tired of my own jokes if you tell them over and over and over again. So, crowd work is so spontaneous and unique.”

“What I've learned through therapy or whatever is that I'm a very defensive person.”

“I spent the first 22 years of my life building a personality.”

“I had 12 minutes in my first special about how ridiculous it is that people think I'm good-looking, when my entire life I wasn't.”

“One thing as a comedian, even though throughout your entire year, you're growing and working on your material... you can feel like you're getting a bit of a 'Groundhog Day' where you're telling the same hour show over and over again.”

“I'm originally from Columbus, Ohio.”

“Everyone wants to complain about every joke ever told.”

“I'm not a jukebox. You can't expect a certain song for me to come and play.”

“We live in a world where everyone has such a false sense of security and confidence hiding behind a computer screen.”

“I don't believe there's anything you can't talk about if you do it correctly, in the right way, at the right time.”

“It's wonderful to be able to think about work. But you have to create; you have to still have your personal life.”

“People view people who get successful on social media as just lucky, like, you happened to get chosen out of all of us.”

“Other people's perspective of you isn't your responsibility.”

“The bigger the room, the louder you have to project your voice.”

“I couldn't sell any tickets at any comedy club, I wasn't getting any kind of break. So going from playing clubs for 35 people who got free tickets to - we broke Ticketmaster, which is insane.”

“You have to learn to deflect so much negativity that's thrown at you when so many people don't understand the negativity you live within your own head.”

“I'm busy 23 hours a day. I sleep terribly. So, that one hour a day at the gym is my hour of the day to focus on my body and make myself happier.”

“I don't want to stop working. But yeah, I think there has to be a level of spirituality, and it can be as simple as gratitude. You can be proud of yourself... It doesn't have to be anything incredibly spiritual, just some kind of awareness as to where you're at and what you've done to get here and what you have to do to stay here.”

“I've been guilty of hating people and when I really sat back and thought about it, it was because I was jealous of where that person was in their life, I thought maybe they got an opportunity that I should have gotten.”

“Don't worry about the things you do that people don't like. Focus on the things that you do that people do like and make more of that stuff for them. Because those are the people who bless you with a career.”