I think you're a better comedian when you're in the moment…

Maybe certain aspects of what I was doing were reacting against what was happening or what people said, too. That's something that happens when…

— Beck

I think, first of all, you need to love what you're doing, and then this helps in the comedian for its part in everything-but…

— Cecilia Bartoli

Every comedian has a moment in his life when he realizes he's a little bit different from everyone else. It's like being the only…

— Chris Rock

There's something about being a parent that has, I think, made me a better comedian.

— Jim Gaffigan

There's nothing better for a comedian than adversity.

— Jeff Dunham

My goal is just to become a better comedian.

— Ron White

To have a comedian stand up and use the shield of irony and the sword of truth, you're there to point out ridiculous things…

— Omid Djalili

Every day I do one or two podcasts that 92 percent of people never will hear. I'm constantly producing, constantly making jokes for Twitter.…

— Kurt Braunohler

I'm a much better comedian than I am a soccer player.

— Josh Blue

I don't care that much about rote memorization. An old boyfriend of mine used to get into lacerating arguments with his parents over facts,…

— Susan Orlean

I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like…

— Patrick deWitt

Rote learning is a killer for most of us and for some people, it really excludes them.

— Nicholas Negroponte

Wonder Woman isn't Spider-man or Batman. She doesn't have a town, she has a world. That was more interesting to me than a kind…

— Joss Whedon

I struggle to learn by rote. I've had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It's not contextualized.

— Esperanza Spalding