Comedian Quote by Dominic Holland

As you get older, as a comedian, and keep doing it, what you actually start to cherish on stage is not the build-up to…

— Patton Oswalt

Really good comedians, you know, when they go on stage, they don't really care what the audience - they're fearless, you know? They're so…

— Aziz Ansari

I think a lot of people think that we [comedians] are nerveless people in the theatre, that we don't feel that kind of terror…

— Barry Humphries

The silent thing onstage allows for a kind of intimacy that no conversation can have. If I just shut up, we're forced to look…

— Teller

When you're doing comedy on stage, it's great because you have the audience there and they're like another actor in the scene. You feed…

— Wendell Pierce

A lot of times people will have after-parties or try and host an event for comedians, and they misunderstand us. They think it should…

— Tig Notaro

If an audience is loud and in a party mode, that's an audience that can absorb comedy.

— Tom Green

Comedians sometimes forget that there's an audience. You gotta be conscious that you're performing for other human beings.

— Jeff Garlin

My experience tells me that any time you hear people laughing on a sitcom, it's the writers who happen to be closest to the…

— Steven Weber

Without the laughs, the audience wouldn't be there at all, so in that sense, yes, I am a comedian.

— George Carlin

You must not be afraid of small bits of silence. To use it well is the height of confidence and skill for a comedian.…

— Franklyn Ajaye

The greatest comedian I've ever seen is Jack Benny. He wasn't afraid of the silences.

— Bob Newhart