Comedians Quotes · Page 10

Comedians by and large are some of the most sensitive people on earth. Even if they're socially callous.

— Dave Chappelle

I don't want to follow comedians because I don't want to see what they're thinking about, 'cause then maybe I won't stumble…

— Nick Thune

There are comedians who focus on everything that is external. They focus on politics and the news, what's going on in that…

— Mike Birbiglia

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

People think comedians don't do drama. Comics are drama. And what is drama, as opposed to comedy? It's all the same to…

— Sinbad

They don't make you pay for the humor. It's up and down, but they're trying to give you as many laughs as…

— Mike Judge

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

— Tatiana Maslany

A lot of people who claim they're political comedians are just comedians who have opinions. But they stop being funny the minute…

— Gilbert Gottfried

For comedians, we're all kind of tweeting our thoughts instead of spending time developing them. You can gauge how good a joke…

— Natasha Leggero

I don't know why comedians moan about touring; you get driven to a town, stay in a hotel, work for an hour…

— Greg Davies

Reading [Judd Apatow] book, about his background, I think there's a great similarity. What gives him the fire to work hard? He…

— David Copperfield

The difference between comedians and the general public is that we are meant to be funnier. And when you've got politicians giving…

— Jim Jefferies

I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I think that comedians, more than any other type of celebrity, have to keep their humour and keep their feet on the…

— Jimmy Carr

People love to make comedians out to be miserable, dark, twisted people. And I just - I think a lot of people…

— Tig Notaro

The 'HIGNFY' line-up often consists of four male comedians and one lone female TV presenter who barely says a word. Lo and…

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

It's quite telling that the really big comedians - like John Bishop from Liverpool, Kevin Bridges from Glasgow, Peter Kay from Bolton…

— Ardal O'Hanlon

There's a fallacy with stand up comedy, which is, people come up to comedians, and they go, 'You say what I think…

— Jim Jefferies

If you make a bad movie about stand-up, then comedians will mock you for the rest of your life.

— Judd Apatow

Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers.

— Jack Black

I've always said that musicians are the comics of my generations and comedians are the politicians of my generation.

— Devendra Banhart

For some reason, comedians are still children. The social skills somehow never reach us, so we say exactly what we think without…

— Bob Newhart

I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you…

— Colin Quinn

If you think something's funny, go with that. Most comedians pull jokes from a place of honesty.

— Olivia Munn

Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Even though I do a more traditional type of being funny on television, I still know a lot of comedians and stand-ups…

— Busy Philipps

Here's what I'm afraid of. I know a lot of comedians, friends of mine, who just got into the 'Doesn't matter what…

— Patton Oswalt

Some performers are brilliant comedians, some are genius musicians, and some just make you happy to be alive. THE BOBS are all…

— Paul Provenza

The Internet has done nothing but good for comedy all around. Comedians no longer have to rely on TV execs and club…

— Doug Stanhope

I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny.

— Denis Norden

There should be comedians who perform only for robots - I'm saying human comedians that only perform for robots.

— Fred Armisen

There was a story saying I didn't like contemporary comedians, but it's completely untrue - a lot of them are very dear…

— Ronnie Corbett

Most comedians I know are quite serious, anxious people who find life rather difficult. As a consequence, they make people laugh.

— Robyn Hitchcock

Cheech and I used to call ourselves musicians; we never called ourselves comedians. We were musicians that were funny.

— Tommy Chong

I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.

— Jack Whitehall

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

People want their actors to do comedy, too. They don't want any comedians next to the actor. They want one solo hero…

— Akshay Kumar

There is nothing bad about this job. Comedians have nothing to complain about. That doesn't mean I'm not constantly moaning and worrying.

— Greg Davies

Comedians in the Midwest are scrappy. We're always touring and doing shows in the middle of random places, and that's a cool…

— Sarah Sherman

Many comedians - both male and female - do have an "I will never date another comedian" rule.

— Chris Gethard