Classroom Quote by Steve Harvey

I've not really been angling to be a comedian. I knew comics and I loved them and I loved being funny, but I didn't…

— Mitch Hedberg

[At Boston College] I started working on the kinds of skills that you need for comedy. It's about being creative and learning to use…

— Amy Poehler

You have to understand how bad I wanted to be a comedian, how much I loved doing it. I still can't believe I get…

— Bill Burr

I'm not a comedian. I didn't study sketch comedy; my background isn't that.

— Paul Rudd

Honestly, I never really thought I'd be a comedian. But I did take an aptitude test in seventh grade - and this is 100…

— Michelle Wolf

I knew nothing about professional comedians when I became a comedian. I was a rabbi. So I had no professional comedians to learn from.

— Jackie Mason

I don't want to have to be a teacher so I can be a comedian.

— Josh Gondelman

Working in comedies is not something I set out to do. But, I love it. I've taken some improv classes here and there, but…

— Erick Chavarria

To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps.

— Matthew Perry

It never dawned on me that I had the option of becoming a comedian. I come from a little dirt street town in northwest…

— Ron White

I would probably be a teacher if I weren't a comedian.

— Brad Garrett

I started in action, and then I went to comedy school.

— Dwayne Johnson