Comedian Quotes · Page 29

Certain comedians work with certain actors; like Adam Sandler worked with Jack Nicholson.

— Samuel L. Jackson

He was so good at everything he did. You can't call Ronnie Barker a comedian. He was an actor, and a great…

— Bruce Forsyth

Stand-up comedy is a science. Every comedian is a psychology major, naturally.

— Eddie Griffin

Twitter makes you a comedian in the same way that digital cameras make you a photographer

— Ken Jennings

When I first realized that I wanted to be a stand-up comedian was when I was in the service.

— Rudy Ray Moore

I don't know any astronauts. There are a lot of people who say they want to be comedians.

— Todd Barry

Like every comedian, if I heard a joke that I thought would work, I used it.

— Milton Berle

You know, a comedian's comedian is just that - it's a guy who's original and funny and can make comics laugh.

— Jim Norton

Luckily, I'm not a stand-up comedian, so I don't get the fear of standing on stage in front of a dead audience:…

— Charles Stross

Canadian comedians are generally more well-rounded... They have to do a lot more. In order to have a career in this country,…

— Scott Thompson

Podcasts feature comedians being as funny as they can be in a non-censored situation. It's really akin to standup in a way.…

— Scott Aukerman

Every comedian is just doing the comedy they find funny. This is me and it's not clean in any way. I could…

— Jim Jefferies

The tragedy for comedians is there's nothing more they want than to be liked. We desperately seek approval. It's almost like a…

— Jimmy Carr

I'd say any good set or any comedy that I've worked on, that's worked, has been comedians pitching ideas back and forth…

— Amy Poehler

Richard Pryor introduced me to the world of the inner city, and the urban world, and did it hysterically. My favorite comedian,…

— Bob Newhart

I want to be a little more dramatic nowadays. I definitely want something big and funny, but I look for things that…

— Cedric the Entertainer

Oh yeah, I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays.

— Michael Gambon

Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.

— Alan Moore

When I'm going to see a comedian, I don't want to see them hold back, and when I'm reading a book, I…

— Kathy Griffin

We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Being a comedian, you're under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform - to deal with pressure without…

— Al Franken

I'm a comedian. I want you to laugh. That's my main goal. I punch things up to get things tighter, quicker and…

— Bert Kreischer

I had ADD as a kid and often acted as the class clown. My teachers used to tell my mom, 'Raphael thinks…

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

I hate when comedians use Performed For The Troops as one of there credits before they go up on stage.

— Felipe Esparza

The first thing any comedian does on getting an unscheduled laugh is to verify the state of his .

— W. C. Fields

To be a comedian: Make peace with the fact that you will never be as funny as a baby falling over.

— Chris Ramsey

I started as a stand-up comedian. I wanted to be Carol Burnett when I was growing up.

— Stephanie Miller

I'm fascinated by the similarities and differences between comedians and magicians.

— David Copperfield

I think I identify as a comedian before kind of anything else. Before I identify as a person, as a human being…

— Patti Harrison

I feel the life expectancy of a comedian is 30 seconds. If you don't hook an audience in half-a-minute, you're dead.

— Nipsey Russell

I don't really consider myself an actor, and I don't know if I'm a comedian.

— Tom Green

Professional comedians, surprisingly, have a lack of humor. They're insensitive to the insanity of our times.

— Mort Sahl

“Don't be too funny, guys like funny but they don't want to marry a comedian, right? The guy is supposed to be…

— Lindsey Kelk

I wanted to be a comedian. I wanted to meet waitresses and felt that being a comedian was my best way to…

— Dana Gould

An offended audience member repeating a comedian's act from memory is worse than, literally, anything.

— Anthony Jeselnik

If I am known as a comedian or I get to be known as one, it is because of one of two…

— Rajpal Yadav

I'm not very big on politics. I'm a comedian and not that smart. I don't have the mind capacity for it.

— Bobby Moynihan

SNL' and 'Half-Baked' came and certainly brought me a bigger audience. But I lost the perspective of being a real good comedian.

— Jim Breuer

“People used to laugh at me when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well they're not laughing now.”

— Bob Monkhouse

All of us black comedians are trying to be mainstream, but you don't want to lose the edge.

— Jamie Foxx