Comedians Quotes · Page 11

The one thing that's depressing as a comedian to realize is that rock stars get groupies, and comedians don't.

— Matt Besser

I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations…

— Steve Martin

Comedians can articulate some important and profound ideas that address a lot of the hypocrisy we're inundated with (in the media).

— Ted Alexandro

When I started, I was doing all the good comedians I'd ever seen. Then I developed my own voice. My routines are…

— Bob Newhart

I need wrong to get laughs. I need a normal world so that I can be abnormal, and that's my problem. Comedians…

— Gallagher

A lot of the comedians don't even tell the joke. Like only three tell the joke, the rest of them dissect it.

— Bob Saget

Unfortunately, the show's success comes at the expense of its biggest asset -- the comedians themselves.

— Richard Pryor

Our good time is sitting in a coffee shop with a newspaper, writing a line on the back of a napkin. That…

— Jerry Seinfeld

I'd like to help other comedians and when I get a little older I'd like to open up a nice comedy club…

— Bruce Bruce

When we go to see comedians or funny movies, they don't address the wall behind them; they face us. This is why…

— Doug TenNapel

The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and…

— Denis Norden

But what's true about comedians is that we've all got a huge hole in our personality. In a room of 3,000 people,…

— Jimmy Carr

There are comedians that I like. I think a lot of it, you just figure out on your own. It's definitely one…

— Michael Showalter

I was influenced by a lot of stand-up comedians... Eddie Murphy back when he was doing 'Raw.' I watched that so many…

— Ray William Johnson

Comedians are like pop bands. When you're young, you have ruddy principles and don't do old stuff because you don't want to…

— Harry Enfield

I don't like the fact that most black people or black comedians have to present themselves in a flamboyant way. It's good…

— Franklyn Ajaye

In the comedy world, there's always been one woman to five men. I think that's changing, that we're being respected more as…

— Annaleigh Ashford

Old radio comedy makes me laugh, as well as 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue' and comedians like Paul Merton.

— Lynne Truss

Comedians are the monkeys of acting. When you go to the zoo, everybody loves the monkey exhibit.

— Tracy Morgan

I grew up watching 'Saturday Night Live' and those comedians - that's really even what got me into music was The Blues…

— John Popper

As comedians, if nothing else, we're certainly allowed to make fun of ourselves and our own journeys and our own experiences.

— Lauren Ash

What really got my goat at MGM were comedians like The Marx Brothers who never wrote their own jokes.

— Buster Keaton

Most actors can't write. Most writers can't act. Most comedians can't act. I can do all three, so why wouldn't I do…

— Charlie Murphy

I sometimes think of not doing Twitter or Facebook anymore, but that's how people find their favorite bands and comedians.

— Mike Birbiglia

South Indian films have most number of comedians and to see them all on screen at times is unrealistic. I'm happy that…

— Vivek

Most kids were watching cartoons while I was watching some of the greatest comedians of all time.

— Matt Rife

I was brought up with TV comedians. I'll remember them till I go to my grave, all those comedians, as decadent fluff.

— Paul Morrissey

I don't think comedians make an active decision to be a certain "persona." Comedians write the way they're going to write.

— Jim Gaffigan

The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television…

— Marc Maron

Bits are fake conversations comedians have because they are uncomfortable being vulnerable with other human beings in any way.

— Chris Gethard

“COMEDIAN: [...] What is it you do for a living? HECKLER: I mind my own business. COMEDIAN: Self-employed, eh? No really, what…

— J. Ross Clara

When I entered the industry in 1984, I was welcomed, no one pushed me away. I want the younger comedians to experience…

— Johnny Lever

To me, the best comedians are the ones that take everyday, normal, boring stuff that no one thinks is funny, and they…

— Blake Griffin

I was always funny, but I wasn't a great musician, and I wanted to be a musician way more than I wanted…

— Greg Behrendt

Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is…

— Jimmy Fallon

Comedians really are like a species. That's not to be exclusive. Anyone can kind of become one. You have to pay your…

— Pete Holmes

My heroes - people like Woody Allen - were stand-up comedians. Therefore, I always felt I should give it a go.

— Stephen Merchant

For many comedians, two common anxiety triggers include performing in front of family members and doing brand new material.

— Josh Gondelman

Comedy was never a scarcity in Kollywood. Comedians of great calibre have emerged from this land.

— Vivek

I find comedians to be the biggest cocksuckers, because they don't want people to know how easy it is.

— Gavin McInnes