Comedian Quote by George Carlin

The image people have of comedians staring defiantly over a stationary line of good taste is simply inaccurate. We don't approach this line, put…

— Jim Norton

Half of being a comedian is knowing how to pace a joke, how to say it, so someone else could be given the same…

— Janelle James

You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.

— Abe Burrows

I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in…

— Bob Newhart

Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea - like…

— Stan Smith

The only way you can know where the line is, is if you cross it.

— Dave Chappelle

I think the people that most often cross a line are comedians. I think they relish that, and take pride in that on some…

— Sam Elliott

The line must follow some direction of policy, whether rooted in logic or experience. Lines should not be drawn simply for the sake of…

— Felix Frankfurter

I believe that comedians do what they do, and then they get credit or criticism for doing it. There's nothing planned about this.

— Jim Gaffigan

Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.

— Margaret Millar

I don't think you cross the line - I think you move the line.

— Jeff Ross

What people who don't write don't understand is that they think you make up the line consciously — but you don't. It proceeds from…

— Woody Allen