America Quote by Ellen DeGeneres

The best comedy I ever did was when people didn't know who I was.

— Chevy Chase

I don't even know if people are familiar with my name as an actor. It's not as if I ever was an über-famous actor.

— Danny Strong

To be famous in comedy is unbearably difficult. But I don't care what people know me for as long as they know me for…

— Andrew Santino

The whole acting and Hollywood [thing], it's just work to me. Stand-up comedy ruins you so badly for doing television. I don't really need…

— Doug Stanhope

I'm hardly a known name, but I don't want to go, like, 'Oh, people call me a storyteller comedian, let me just go up…

— Kyle Kinane

I'm quietly becoming New York's premiere actor. People don't understand. They have me pigeon-holed as a comedian.

— Colin Quinn

I mean, I really was known for doing just straight up comedy before and I certainly didn't think of myself as somebody who would…

— Leslie Grossman

I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.

— Eddie Izzard

I would say, up until 'Anchorman,' I wasn't any kind of household name or anything, but I wasn't necessarily identified as much with being…

— Paul Rudd

I came to Hollywood and nobody knew me. I was on a coupla TV shows.

— Peter Falk

People haven't seen me in a comedic setting, but that's who I really am.

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians.

— Paula Danziger