Professional comedians, surprisingly, have a lack of humor. They're insensitive to the insanity of our times.

If I want to be a real comedian, I can't let you dictate my material, so I started creating more new material.

If I get big laughs, I'm a comedian. If I get little laughs, I'm a humorist. If I get no laughs, I'm a singer.

Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.

Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

Comedians are a much rarer and far more valuable commodity than all the gold and precious stones in the world.

The one thing that's depressing as a comedian to realize is that rock stars get groupies, and comedians don't.

I like writing and directing. I enjoy telling stories, and I think it's born in a comedian to end up directing.

I must admit I am nervous about getting Alzheimer's. Once it hits, I might tell my best joke and never know it.

I see myself as a comedian rather than a female comedian. I happen to be a woman, but I am a comedian by trade.

I thought she was the funniest woman, and I believed being a comedian was the most exciting thing you could be.

I don't consider myself an Iranian comedian; I consider myself a comedian who happens to be of Iranian descent.

I have done a wide range of characters and getting acknowledged as a comedian is encouraging for me as an actor.

Because you make me laugh don't make you a comic. A comedian is a person who, that's how they make their living.

I'm not collegial, I don't hang out. I'm soloist, I like my solitude, I don't really hang around with comedians.

I have always been a comedian - that has always been my job and it is what I want to do for a long time to come.

My soul is not contained within the limits of my body; my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul.

You just got to be really logical when you're a comedian - to a fault. Like a lawyer's got to believe in the law.

I do think that character types trend. As a female comedian, the parts that come my way are often terrible women.

Two cannibals were eating a comedian, and one of them turns to the other and asks, 'Does this taste funny to you?

I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes.

There is this false perception that comedians can never be serious. It's like from like the era of court jesters.

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

Feeling unsure and lost is part of your path. Don't avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it.

My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out.

I'm not a broad comedy guy. I've been funny in movies, but I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who's sometimes funny.

Everyone thinks I'm a comedian - which I am and are. I was born into a comedic family but I'm trained as an actor.

I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up.

I worry about my judgment when anything I believe in or do regularly begins to be accepted by the American public.

When somebody mangles one of my jokes, that bothers me more than somebody saying that I'm the worst comedian ever.

All comedians are preoccupied with one thing and with one thing only-themmm-selllves. It's a horrible lot in life.

[Twitter] is not totally where I go anymore to sell myself as a concept, as a comedian, because it moves too fast.

I don't have credibility, I'm a comedian. I'm not Ed Murrow up on the roof in a London fog reporting on the blitz.

Every black comedian in the country knew what I could do. But that doesn't mean everyone else is paying attention.

He was so good at everything he did. You can't call Ronnie Barker a comedian. He was an actor, and a great writer.

Alan King, a comedian I adored, was considered society, and I was considered the Jewish kid from the neighborhood.

I always wanted to be a stand-up comedian, even as a kid. Me and my dad would watch 'Evening at the Improv' on A&E.

If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.

Great Canadian comics are often outsiders and insiders at the same time. That's a great perspective for a comedian.

I'm a comedian. Comedians are supposed to be jaded, cynical, angry people. But I'm not: I'm a silly, silly fun boy.

Comedians have a tendency to have a limited range, they tend to do one thing and do it very well, but it's limited.

I really don't mind being a comedian because I get the chance to make people laugh and I think that's truly a gift.

That’s the beauty of being a comedian: it’s the one job you’re allowed to do that. We’re lucky. We’re really lucky.

If you're billed as a comedian, people will accept anything you say as light-hearted and not with intent behind it.

I first wanted to be a comedian when I was six or seven and my dad showed me Laurel and Hardy's "Perfect Day" on tv.

I know who Dick Gregory is; I knew what his accomplishments are. I certainly knew him as a comedian and an activist.

As a family comedian, it is so wonderful seeing everyone from kids through to grandparents being entertained by you.

I don't know if I even consider myself a comedian really - I do comedic acting in some films and dramatic in others.

If there's anything I like better than honey and ketchup, it's baloney and whipped cream --- and we haven't got any!

The greatest thing about being a comedian is knowing other comedians. And you get to talk to them. Its the most fun.

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