Comedian Quotes · Page 24

I am a funny as well as an emotional person. The comedian inside me cries at times while watching a movie.

— Bharti Singh

I am a comedian. You may or may not find me funny, but the fact remains, that I am a comedian.

— Sarah Millican

Comedians rarely have writers, and if you do it's usually a sign of laziness.

— Jim Gaffigan

If I want to keep working as an actor, I'm going to become a comedian who does fart jokes.

— Peter Sarsgaard

I'm a comedian. You have to understand that my brain doesn't work like a politician's brain.

— Beppe Grillo

I think the job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but also challenge them to laugh at things they didn't…

— Ricky Gervais

For me, comedians are like the epitome for everything great, and they terrify me. I just want to be them. I want…

— Tatiana Maslany

I think Jimmy Carr is very funny and probably the most industrious comedian I know and I really respect him for that.

— Frank Skinner

Richard Pryor - he had stories, he had characters, he had short jokes, and he had bits. He had all those things.…

— Charlie Murphy

I don't have a lot of recreation time. I've always been under the assumption that if you're selling tickets you need to…

— Larry the Cable Guy

Many old music hall fans were present at the funeral today of Fred 'Chuckles' Jenkins, Britain's oldest and unfunniest comedian. In tribute,…

— Ronnie Barker

They proved that if you quit smoking, it will prolong your life. What they haven't proved is that a prolonged life is…

— Bill Hicks

When people laugh at me, they are not laughing in the way that they normally would at a comedian. They are laughing…

— Barry Humphries

I set out to become a comedian, and I said in order to do that the first thing I'll do is become…

— George Carlin

A lot of amazing comedians that I've worked with just really follow their instincts and you can't really teach someone comedic timing.…

— Chelsea Handler

There was this whole middle time that only Chris Rock came out of, you know, 10 years ago it was Chris and…

— Bob Saget

I was bad at sports and picked last every day. I couldn't quite figure out what my role was in the social…

— Judd Apatow

“Comedians in their infancy are generally selfish, irresponsible, emotionally retarded, morally dubious, substance-addicted animals who live out of boxes and milk crates.…

— Marc Maron

Talking about the fact that I get depressed or that I've had some suicidal issues in my life is not easy. I…

— Chris Gethard

I have a very high respect for professional comedians. What they do astonishes me. You have to be really smart and absorb…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Why would a lazy guy become a parent of five? Then again, why would creative people who inherently don't like change and…

— Jim Gaffigan

We [me and my husband] both had our things. Seth was the artist, I was the singer. We were like "You do…

— Rachael MacFarlane

Funny bones, to me, are more important than funny lines. If a comedian is just not likable and doing the lines, you…

— Ricky Gervais

I made sure that instead of people making fun of me, like every comedian probably says, I made fun of myself first…

— Eliza Coupe

I had ADD as a kid and often acted as the class clown. My teachers used to tell my mom, 'Raphael thinks…

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

I'm a comedian. I want you to laugh. That's my main goal. I punch things up to get things tighter, quicker and…

— Bert Kreischer

Being a comedian, you're under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform - to deal with pressure without…

— Al Franken

We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm fascinated by the similarities and differences between comedians and magicians.

— David Copperfield

I started as a stand-up comedian. I wanted to be Carol Burnett when I was growing up.

— Stephanie Miller

To be a comedian: Make peace with the fact that you will never be as funny as a baby falling over.

— Chris Ramsey

The first thing any comedian does on getting an unscheduled laugh is to verify the state of his .

— W. C. Fields

I hate when comedians use Performed For The Troops as one of there credits before they go up on stage.

— Felipe Esparza

When I'm going to see a comedian, I don't want to see them hold back, and when I'm reading a book, I…

— Kathy Griffin

Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.

— Alan Moore

Oh yeah, I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays.

— Michael Gambon

You know, a comedian's comedian is just that - it's a guy who's original and funny and can make comics laugh.

— Jim Norton

Like every comedian, if I heard a joke that I thought would work, I used it.

— Milton Berle

When I first realized that I wanted to be a stand-up comedian was when I was in the service.

— Rudy Ray Moore

I don't know any astronauts. There are a lot of people who say they want to be comedians.

— Todd Barry