Comedian Quotes · Page 15

For a comedian, talking to people is the best education.

— Thambi Ramaiah

Comedians want to be rock legends for a day - that sounds fun to them.

— Jake Kasdan

Keep laughing. As long as you’re laughing you still have hope.

— Moe Howard

I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.

— Anthony Anderson

“Looking towards joy is the most important of rewiring the stress response”

— Miranda Hart

In my heart, I believe I'm a top flight comedian and a top flight rapper.

— Lil Dicky

I love comedy, but I did always consider myself a dramatic comedian.

— Molly Shannon

Comedians are the one who have to tell the emperor he has no clothes on.

— Chris Rock

“God is a comedian playing to an audience that is afraid to laugh. VOLTAIRE”

— Anonymous

When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be…

— Will Ferrell

I'm very lucky to be a comedian, and I feel privileged that people come to see me in the expectation that I…

— Jon Richardson

[Twitter] is not totally where I go anymore to sell myself as a concept, as a comedian, because it moves too fast.

— Jen Kirkman

For a comedian to kind of catch onto something right as something's catching on in our culture, a lot of it is…

— Jim Gaffigan

Every barbershop has a guy who wrecks shop every time he comes in. He has the whole barbershop laughing. That doesn't mean…

— Charlie Murphy

British comedian Imran Yusuf is fantastic and so is Shazia Mirza, also London-based.

— Varun Grover

Jason [Sudeikis] is a successful actor and comedian, I don't think that he takes comedic roles any less seriously than he does…

— Taron Egerton

I just really remember the feeling of being a younger comedian who was kind of an outlier for being experimental and weird…

— Chris Gethard

I'm a comedian first. I've learned how to act. I just draw on life experiences and that's how I've learned. I didn't…

— Steve Harvey

I'm most proud of my career as a touring comedian and musician. I love doing television, I love selling records, but when…

— Trixie Mattel

I really will never understand pushing back on comedians who are like, "I'm like a politician campaigning and shaking hands with these…

— Jen Kirkman

A lot of comedians, when they have a bad gig, will blame everything but themselves. They'll blame the crowd, or the room…

— Anonymous

Anyone you give a ton of money to is going to go slightly crazy. I don't think comedians are particularly special in…

— Nick Kroll

I used to have a theory actually that, if you've had a good childhood, a good marriage and a little bit of…

— David Steinberg

It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're writers who perform their own material. It's more…

— Rachel Weisz

I think comedy is difficult, and I'm amazed so many people want to do it. I'll be buying jeans and somebody will…

— Billy Connolly

Gary Greenberg is a thoughtful comedian and a cranky philosopher and a humble pest of a reporter, equal parts Woody Allen, Kierkegaard,…

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus

I was scared to death because for the comics of my generation, HBO specials are like the pinnacle. I'm thinking of all…

— Bill Burr

I always say that comedians and actors were all kind of shy when they were young. I was very, believe it or…

— Don Rickles

It used to be trained professionals doing animation and they were great. Now they have celebrities and famous actors doing the voices,…

— John Leguizamo

I try not to limit myself. The actors that inspire me are the comedians and the people able to shape-shift into different…

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

This is going to sound pretentious, but I like comedy that addresses something I find either worrisome or interesting in my life.…

— Zach Woods

That's one of the things about comedy that annoys me the most from a comedian perspective. Comedy has gotten so segregated. Now…

— Michael Che

I've been doing comedies but I'm not a comedian.

— Anonymous

I'm the only comedian qualified to navigate a supertanker.

— Peter Baynham

“We are all dead men on leave." —Eugene Levine, comedian”

— Leslie Langtry

“I know I always want to do the best I can.”

— Adam Sandler

I'm a physical comedian first - and I'm a woman before that.

— Kate McKinnon

You don't need to be stable to be a stand-up comedian.

— David Steinberg

Your average comedian doesn't know the podcast universe, really.

— Scott Aukerman

Being a comedian is an incredible thing, but it can be scary sometimes.

— Bill Burr