Books Quote by Willam Belli

It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in…

— Angela Carter

Many, many years ago, I stood on the stage and told bad jokes and did Sophie Tucker as an impersonation, and nobody looked up;…

— Don Rickles

The heroines in 'That's What She Said' are flawed, messy, damaged, hilarious and culpable and not really concerned about being acceptable to the audience…

— Carrie Preston

Something I always admire, especially in female comedians, is that they're willing to make themselves look terrible.

— Jorma Taccone

When you mimic everyone, sometimes authority figures really don't appreciate it which is not an original story. And pretty much every comedian has some…

— Hank Azaria

Once, I was doing Bon Qui Qui in Miami, and this black girl was in the audience, and she yelled out, 'That's not funny!'…

— Anjelah Johnson

With comedy, it's not always a blessing to be beautiful because part of it is self-parody and gurning.

— Sue Perkins

I auditioned for so many things - cops, lawyers, doctors and things but they were like, "She just seems too sweet. I don't see…

— Christina Hendricks

I've heard that kind of weird backward compliment often - 'She's so talented, but not pretty.'

— Kathy Baker

When I grew up, you wanted to look like Marlene Dietrich, Betty Grable. Fortunately, I didn't know that I really wanted to look like…

— Dorian Corey

There is that doll dress-up quality of adorable teenage girl writer, and I never felt either as adorable as I was supposed to be,…

— Emma Forrest

I parody myself every chance I get. I try to make fun of myself and let people know that I'm a human being, and…

— Gary Coleman