I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky…

“When he thought he was doing something that made a difference to people, he could bear any burden [Moses]. When he lost that sense…

— Harold S. Kushner

I'm trying to be a comedian, you know?

— Liam Neeson

I'm always trying to find the next comedian that just gives me something a little funny to combine with all of the depressing news…

— Jesse Williams

If Jay spent as much time studying as he does trying to be a comedian, he'd be a big star.

— Jay Leno

I'm a comedian who happens to be Latino. What's the difference? The difference is, my special will air on Comedy Central, not Telemundo.

— Gabriel Iglesias

No matter what town we went to, if there was a comedian playing, I'd go watch.

— Michael Waltrip

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

— Tatiana Maslany

If someone doesn't like a comedian that's fine; a lot of people probably don't like my standup, and that's fine. But I think that…

— Jim Norton

The only difference between a comedian and someone else? We need to make people laugh more.

— Greg Davies

At one point when I was very young, when I was first starting out, I thought, 'Well, one day I'll be able to put…

— Bo Burnham

I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you…

— Colin Quinn

Fighting fire with fire is like trying to knock down a building with a hammer

— Courtney Hayward

“I tried imitating him a few times. But I was too self-conscious, like someone trying to feel natural while walking about naked in a…

— André Aciman

“If someone doesn’t like who you are, trying to change for them is rarely successful and doing so carries even more remote odds that…

— Michael Stark

“It's like trying to waltz with an amchor.”

— Margot Datz