About Quote by Chris Rock

It takes many years to be a great comedian.

— Don Rickles

A comedian's career span is five or 10 years. I am lucky to have worked with so many distinguished actors and their grandsons.

— Ali

I lasted seven years as a journalist, and I've been doing comedy for twenty years.

— Lisa Lampanelli

For myself, the way that I learned comedy was doing it live for four years, and only after doing sketch for four years did…

— Rachel Bloom

I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.

— Sally Field

When you start out in comedy, or probably in a lot of things, you want it to happen fast. You don't want to see…

— Mitch Hedberg

I just always loved comedy and I really wanted to be good at it. And it was heartbreaking, 'cause I started and I wasn't…

— Louis C. K

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

— Wanda Sykes

I didn't really get into comedy until a couple months before I started doing comedy.

— Hannibal Buress

I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent…

— Steve Martin

I was bad at sports and picked last every day. I couldn't quite figure out what my role was in the social order, so…

— Judd Apatow

I always loved comedy but I didn't start formally until I was in college.

— Ana Gasteyer