Comedians Quotes · Page 13

The secret of comedy is don't grow up. That's why some comedians are a nightmare, because they never grow up.

— Julian Barratt

The default position now is that comedians do Twitter but I don't know why. Every bad story you see about a comedian…

— Lee Mack

Ironically, heavier comedians, actors, and the characters they play are actually more sympathetic, and easier for audiences to identify with, than the…

— Lionel Shriver

Performers often can be quite socially inept, you know? And even great comedians are like that.

— Julian Barratt

Other comedians have more flexibility and more mental freedom. They can be loose with what they have written.

— Chris McCausland

Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians - and often in no better a light than 'Amos & Andy.'

— Don Cornelius

There are a lot of comedians that were bullied and picked on, and that's why they became comedians. Survival of the fittest.

— Tiffany Haddish

It's like cooks don't watch cooking programmes - I suppose maybe comedians don't watch comedy shows.

— Bob Mortimer

You learn to laugh at yourself, and you also lean on comedy as a crutch to kind of take the edge off…

— John Cena

There's a big thing right now with people using stand-up as a scapegoat. People think comedians have the power to change someone…

— Bill Burr

All of my favorite actresses are comedians at heart: Shirley MacLaine and Madeline Kahn, Diane Keaton and Debra Winger. And they are…

— Casey Wilson

You saw a lot of guys, especially in the early '90s, whose acts were a pitch for a sitcom. A lot of…

— Patton Oswalt

With the Internet being such an easy way to find comedians you think are funny, I think you're probably seeing so many…

— Megan Stalter

Who's famous anymore? No one. There are these comedians that are famous in a weird way. There are comedians, like Anjelah Johnson…

— Moshe Kasher

At comedy festivals, we always get grouped with other musical comedians, so you can get to know them and see what everyone…

— Kate Micucci

I dare say that if most comedians today, the gifted ones, were to sit down and write, they'd learn more about their…

— Mort Sahl

All comedians are a bit attention-seeking and I'm no different. Anyone with the audacity to want to be listened to for an…

— Jimmy Carr

Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.

— Anonymous

Some comedians love their characters. I don't fall in love with mine. In fact, I get tired of them very fast. You…

— John Belushi

Comics and actors come from such a wide variety of backgrounds and there's a theory that all comedians had tortured youths.

— Brad Hall

I will die defending Twitter and what it can do for comedians. Twitter has gotten my friends jobs.

— Megan Stalter

As comedians, we are all laughing because life is so horrible. Life is so difficult, and I cope with it by making…

— Joan Rivers

I'd met enough comics to know that few of them are happy. In fact, now that I think about it, I can't…

— Demond Wilson

Comedians are innately programmed to pick up oddities like mispronounced words, upside-down books on a shelf, and generally undetectable mistakes in everyday…

— Bob Newhart

If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut…

— Walter Kirn

Comedy is in your pocket. Pull out your phone and you have access to some amazing comedians.

— Nate Bargatze

It's 103 comedians, or however many it is, and how would everyone tell it. It's enough people of substance that it makes…

— Bob Saget

The comedians I liked were Bill Cosby and Steven Wright, like just always as a comedic actor. I always liked Gary Larson,…

— Demetri Martin

I do love standup. I love comedians. They're my community. Also, because I know so many of them, I know the value…

— Louis C. K

A lot of comedians want people to listen to them. I don't think we've ever been that bothered about whether people would…

— Bob Mortimer

The comedians who I admire that are really good, they always take it to a deep psychological place.

— Jane Lynch

Comedians have to challenge the power. Comedians should be dangerous and devastating - and funny. That's the hardest part.

— Mort Sahl

Comedians kind of write what comes to them. You can give yourself little assignments, but it's what inspires you.

— Jim Gaffigan

Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.

— Alan Rudolph

Canada has been a breeding ground for great comedic actors, sketch artists and stand-up comedians. We grew up with a different perspective…

— Harland Williams

If you want to see what stage comedians did to get laffs a century ago, watch the 1910 'Wizard of Oz.' I…

— Kage Baker

Comedians don't have hits. You have to have a whole brand-new hour. You have no hits to rely on.

— Aziz Ansari

It's weird because standup can be like therapy. Comedians can't be satisfied with just having fun with our friends. We've got to…

— Artie Lange

You don't look down at your feet. A lot of comedians want to look down at their feet, but you break contact…

— Louis C. K

I think some female comedians are some of the strongest comedians going because they've had to work harder.

— Lou Sanders