Comedian Quotes · Page 30

Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.

— Hal Roach

I would say, up until 'Anchorman,' I wasn't any kind of household name or anything, but I wasn't necessarily identified as much…

— Paul Rudd

Marshall you're so funny man you should be a comedian god damn unfortunately I am I just hide behind the tears of…

— Eminem

I love music. I've always wanted to do music, even when I started out as a comedian.

— Jamie Foxx

Comedians sometimes forget that there's an audience. You gotta be conscious that you're performing for other human beings.

— Jeff Garlin

Pakistan hasn't been cast in the role of... interesting cultural place or, you know, land of great comedians.

— Mohsin Hamid

I'm not a professional comedian. Nobody comes to my comedy shows. That's just a little hobby.

— David Rees

I was influenced by every comedian I ever saw work. That's the only way you learn how to do it.

— Bob Newhart

I've found, across the board, that comedians have been very respectful and kind to me. And that seems to stem from the…

— Bo Burnham

I'm hardly a known name, but I don't want to go, like, 'Oh, people call me a storyteller comedian, let me just…

— Kyle Kinane

As a comedian, I don't know if they're laughing because it's funny or if they're laughing at me because I'm not funny.…

— Larry the Cable Guy

I'd say any good set or any comedy that I've worked on, that's worked, has been comedians pitching ideas back and forth…

— Amy Poehler

The tragedy for comedians is there's nothing more they want than to be liked. We desperately seek approval. It's almost like a…

— Jimmy Carr

Every comedian is just doing the comedy they find funny. This is me and it's not clean in any way. I could…

— Jim Jefferies

Podcasts feature comedians being as funny as they can be in a non-censored situation. It's really akin to standup in a way.…

— Scott Aukerman

Canadian comedians are generally more well-rounded... They have to do a lot more. In order to have a career in this country,…

— Scott Thompson

I'm not a comedian. And I'm not sick. The world is sick, and I'm the doctor. I'm a surgeon with a scalpel…

— Lenny Bruce

What happens after you die? Lot's of things happen after you die - they just don't involve you

— Louis C. K

“The way you turn a sad story around, you should be a comedian! You’re the funniest person I know.”

— Patricia Williams

I've always thought of myself as an African-American comedian, African-American man, everything.

— Jordan Peele

I do feel good doing them [family-friendly movies], but it's not going to be my way of life. I'm a comedian.

— Adam Sandler

With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.

— Colin Quinn

A comedian's career span is five or 10 years. I am lucky to have worked with so many distinguished actors and their grandsons.

— Ali

I considered myself a professional comedian because the club would pay me $20.

— Tom Green

I think the hard thing for young comedians is that the majority of the young people in the audience out there don't…

— John Cleese

Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.

— Carl Reiner

From the very beginning I knew I had to be a comedian, and thus preferred being one.

— M. S. Narayana

If you are a New York comedian who knows how to improvise and has glasses, you're going to start getting commercials.

— Chris Gethard

A comedian can only last till he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious.

— Will Rogers

I have comedic things in my stuff, but I don't consider myself a comedian. I'm just a YouTuber, I guess just a…

— Ryan Higa

If you don't laugh, you're going to cry and people are crying. That's why I guess you have lots of people like…

— Tracy Morgan

[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

Being a rapper is about being cool, but being a comedian, you're not supposed to be the coolest guy.

— Aziz Ansari

Comedians get jokes offered to them, rock stars get women and underwear thrown onstage, and I get guys that want to take…

— Les Claypool

“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