Find Quote by Anjelah Johnson

I wanted to do comedy, but I didn't grow up wanting to be a standup.

— Lolly Adefope

I didn't really want to be part of a clique or a niche. But I also was looking for my own voice, as a…

— Tom Waits

I knew I wanted to be in comedy but the path of least resistance was doing stand-up in folk music clubs where I could…

— Steve Martin

Finding your voice as a stand up comedian means deeply knowing who you are as an artist and a human being.

— Sarah Cooper

When I started, I was doing all the good comedians I'd ever seen. Then I developed my own voice. My routines are my natural…

— Bob Newhart

I started to realize that comedy is what I really wanted to do, but I didn't want to do stand-up.

— D'Arcy Carden

If anything, being a female has afforded me opportunities on YouTube that I necessarily didn't have in doing traditional comedy and auditioning in TV…

— Grace Helbig

There's such a boy's club with comedy in Hollywood and that's what Ben Stiller, Adam Sandler and Will Ferrell do-they develop their own comedies.…

— Anna Faris

I felt a comedy ego beginning to grow, which gave me the courage to begin tentatively looking into myself for material.

— Joan Rivers

My role is almost a sight-gag. I have to be a woman to sing the lyrics "I am a man" to have it be…

— Max von Essen

The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than…

— Rita Rudner

I had started in the comedy world in a more traditional way. I was auditioning for TV, film, and commercials while I was making…

— Grace Helbig