Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People…

I never really saw myself as a comedy director, and I still don't. I see myself as a director.

— Melina Matsoukas

People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always…

— Seth Godin

One of the most gratifying, rewarding things is when people come up, and they tell you how the show influenced their lives in a…

— Adam West

The third biggest comic people in America want to make a comic book out of me. It's unbelievable.

— Mark Roberts

That's the great thing about Comic Con - people are so accepting of one another.

— Alan Tudyk

As drag queens and as comic people, we listen to our own artistic compass all the time.

— Trixie Mattel

I think a lot of the bells and whistles that become available to you would be impossible to resist for some people, so it's…

— Adrian Tomine

The difference between a GOP convention and Comic-Con is that the people at Comic-Con have a much firmer grasp of reality.

— Bill Maher

For me, the reason to make the movie is that if people like the comic, then people would like the movie if it was…

— Anonymous

I'm one of those people that will walk into a bar, and if I wasn't a comic - because some people know who I…

— Bobby Lee

Seriously, if you want to get inside the head of a stand-up comic, you could do a lot worse than reading Steve Martin's Born…

— Al Murray

To be honest, I wasn't the best stand-up comic.

— Bradley Walsh

I had no desire to be a stand-up comic until I decided to do it.

— Rita Rudner

I always had one goal, and that was to be a real funny stand-up comic, and that's pretty much what I'm doing. And everything…

— Wanda Sykes

When you're a stand-up comic, you live and die by what you say on stage. There's no director or writer or producer who can…

— Maz Jobrani