Comedian Quotes · Page 21

I'm glad I'm a comedian. Otherwise, my life would just be a series of undocumented low points.

— Kyle Kinane

I was considered by my peers to be a good comedian. So that's all I ever strived to do was get some…

— Ron White

One can always lament, you know — but to laugh in the face of life, that's very hard. And for me the…

— Martha Graham

I'm not a pop star or a movie star or a comedian, so I'm going to continue to be serious about the…

— Rachel Reeves

I like seeing what the comedian thinks is funny, not just what they think I'll think is funny.

— Anthony Jeselnik

The one thing that has helped sustain my career as an actress and a comedian is that people generally view me as…

— Jennifer Coolidge

A plumber doesn't change the way he plumbs when he has a kid. You're a comedian. This is your style.

— Bill Burr

Richard Pryor is, in my mind, the most honest comedian. He bared his soul to people. I think that's why everybody loved…

— Joe Rogan

In my first stand-up acts there wasn't material even. You know, I'd go on stage and cry and read a Dear John…

— Bobcat Goldthwait

I'm an entertainer first. But I do as a stand up comedian, the way for me to evolve is to make a…

— Ralphie May

Comedy shows in D.C. are so much fun. I think because of the intense area that is connected to politics that people…

— Joe Rogan

It used to be if you wanted to be a comedian, you used to just do sets. You'd go up three times…

— Kurt Braunohler

A comedian, or any artist, needs their time to develop what they are doing. There has to be some respect for the…

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

I talked about everything, man. I've always written material that everyone can laugh at. I talked about growing up. I did a…

— J. B. Smoove

If the 'Chappelle's Show' had stayed on, I seriously doubt I would have developed this fast as a stand-up comedian. I probably…

— Charlie Murphy

I just want to kind of tackle every kind of form that exists in the comedy world; whether it be stand-up or…

— Pauly Shore

Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows,…

— Robert Hewison

It was a very interesting experience. You know, I don't think words could do it justice. Roseanne [Barr] is a comedian, a…

— Jill Stein

Roxanne came along in '86, when I was doing a lot of stand-up. I auditioned for the movie, and of course I…

— Kevin Nealon

But nowadays everybody's a comedian, even the weather girls and continuity announcers. We laugh at everything. Not intelligently anymore, not with sudden…

— Douglas Adams

If a comedian tells a joke that you find funny, you laugh. If he tells a joke you do not find funny,…

— Gilbert Gottfried

I always wanted to be a comedian, even when I was a little kid. I had a funny father who was in…

— Bill Maher

There are a couple of things I want to impart to ladies who want to be in comedy: One, you don’t have…

— Tina Fey

You can't expect everyone to laugh or applaud you for doing edgy things. Sometimes you'll miss. But I think comedians are artists…

— Anthony Jeselnik

Having other comedians complimenting my work is the biggest accolade that I can get.

— Kevin Hart

“You never know where one thing will lead...I guess the lesson is take every opportunity, because something might come of it.”

— Matthew Perry

The biggest superstar of our country is Mr. Amitabh Bachchan, who I feel is the most gifted comedian of all times.

— Sajid Khan

The worst thing that can happen to a comedian is to do a documentary on your life and you're watching it with…

— David Steinberg

Branne's [Pavlovic] parents wanted him to become a taxi driver, but he became a stand-up comedian instead. So they died of shame.

— Aron Flam

“Am I bothered? Am I bothered though. I ain't doing nothing cause I ain't bothered.”

— Catherine Tate

The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry

— Martin Landau

[Adoption] could turn you into an exquisite comedian. Ask Richard Pryor's ghost.

— Keegan-Michael Key

Before I was a comedian, I thought the coolest thing that would happen to me was being a teenager... Boy, was I…

— Chris Rock

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

— Buster Keaton

My whole intention is to break down these limitations of what a black comedian is supposed to be and to open up…

— Amanda Seales

When somebody mangles one of my jokes, that bothers me more than somebody saying that I'm the worst comedian ever.

— Hannibal Buress

Nerd. One whose unbridled passion for something defines who they are as a person, without fear of other people's judgment.

— Zachary Levi

They all laughed when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.

— Bob Monkhouse

“A comedian's life is truly a comedy in itself. The majority cannot take themselves seriously.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

I worry about my judgment when anything I believe in or do regularly begins to be accepted by the American public.

— George Carlin