Having other comedians complimenting my work is the biggest accolade that I can get.

The best advice I've ever received is, 'No one else knows what they're doing either.

The best-laid plans of mice and comedians usually wind up on the cutting-room floor.

I'm a comedian, which is the opposite of a lifestyle that equips you to be a parent.

From the very beginning I knew I had to be a comedian, and thus preferred being one.

I became a comedian because I didn't want to be bullied anymore. Onstage I was safe.

I’ve had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware.

Growing up, I loved comedy even before I knew that you could be a stand-up comedian.

I think a lot of comedians sometimes pretend to find the job more taxing than it is.

There's something about being a parent that has, I think, made me a better comedian.

I love music. I've always wanted to do music, even when I started out as a comedian.

I'm a comedian who happens to be Muslim; my comedy stems on all forms of my identity.

As a comedian, I am attracted to truths that are uncomfortable. I like funny bummers.

I started as a stand-up comedian. I wanted to be Carol Burnett when I was growing up.

I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.

I find a duck's opinion of me is very much influenced by whether or not I have bread.

The greatest comedian I've ever seen is Jack Benny. He wasn't afraid of the silences.

comedians are people who say funny things, and comics are people who say things funny.

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

I don't claim to have all the answers; after all, I'm just a comedian who reads a lot.

All comedians are, in a way, anarchists. Our job is to make fun of the existing world.

Being a professional comedian is doing it right and good, when you don't feel like it.

Sarah Palin has decided not to run for President and go straight to the quitting part.

Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.

I'm a clown. I'm a comedian. Comedy, by design, is a place to explore the subconscious.

I think for comedians, acting is their natural progression. It's all about progression.

If you watch the arcs of so many comedians, at some point, they just become themselves.

Both my uncles were in bands, my grandpa was a comedian who wore clown makeup on stage.

Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.

Once you become a comedian, you accept that people are just going to yell stuff at you.

Comedy is a noble art. And every comedian who does anything is serving a noble purpose.

I find my fans are really funny people. Most comedians can't say that about their fans.

Too much comedy today is vulgar, not clever. I say that as a comedian and as a consumer.

I weighed 107 kilos when 'Sukh' was released. I had become like a South Indian comedian.

Outsiders develop humor as a defense; why do you think most comedians are gay or Jewish?

The mother-in-laws themselves weren't natural jokes but most comedians used to use that.

Most comedians weren't great athletes; that was the way they got noticed in high school.

I'm not a comedy writer, I'm a comedian, so I only write stuff that I would want to say.

Twitter makes you a comedian in the same way that digital cameras make you a photographer

Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.

Oh yeah, I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays.

I don't know any astronauts. There are a lot of people who say they want to be comedians.

I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.

I just respected comedians whether they were or they weren't, from, you know, new or old.

Some of the best ideas I've gotten for my act have come from comedians and not magicians.

Certain comedians work with certain actors; like Adam Sandler worked with Jack Nicholson.

There is nothing quite as loud as the silence of an audience when a comedian is on stage.

I'm kind of the antithesis of a comedian. People that don't like me will agree with that.

A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.

I'm not really a comedian, innit; I just naturally say things which people class as funny.

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