Comedians Quote by Julian Barratt

Most performers take themselves too seriously. They forget there is a difference between the characters they play on the screen or stage and themselves,…

— Grace Jones

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

— Jeff Garlin

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

I think people have a misconception about comedians and performers. All that stuff is serious business.

— Redfoo

A lot of times, comedic actors are discriminated against. People just assume they can't do something other than what they do, rather than thinking,…

— Brett Gelman

Comedians by and large are some of the most sensitive people on earth. Even if they're socially callous.

— Dave Chappelle

Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy, and then…

— Scott Aukerman

I really think the more talent people have, the more polite they are: Laurence Olivier and Alec Guinness always arrived on time and were…

— Antony Armstrong-Jones

Great performers in all fields seem immune to what outsiders think about them. Their sense of themselves never depends on the feedback-positive or negative-they…

— John Eliot

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough…

— Patton Oswalt

Great performers require a measure of confidence that would strike many as absurd, unfounded, and downright irrational. They believe in themselves utterly, without question,…

— John Eliot

Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.

— Anonymous