Comedian Quotes - Page 16

For aspiring comedians? Don't listen to me. Just go on stage and do what you think is funny.

I wasn't the good looking guy, I wasn't the hot chick, I wasn't the fat guy, I didn't have a catchphrase, I didn't wear a silly hat. I was just trying to improve as a comedian.

I was a comedian in Russia, and I worked on the cruise ships there. I met a lot of Americans, and they were laughing even though I didn't speak their language.

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

The whole country was tied together by radio. We all experienced the same heroes and comedians and singers. They were giants.

You are always a comedian by default. You are this way because you've been forced to be this way, but it is better to be the hero. So if you can be a persona, the great one of my lifetime of course was and is Marlon Brando.

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.

Will Rogers used to say he wouldn't run for president no matter how badly the country needed a comedian.

I guess ultimately a lot of comedians just wanna be taken seriously.

I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled.

The funniest thing a comedian can do is not do it.

Thou shalt not steal-only from other comedians.

I do films which get me out of my comedian routine so that I don't get bored being a stand-up comedian. And with films, it's here today, gone tomorrow. So stand-up comedy is here to stay for me.

When it comes to English stand-up comedy, Indians have only seen the best - Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Cosby and the like. So, when someone claims to be an English stand-up comedian in India, he'd better be very good if he's going to make a life of it.

My personal favorite is Woody Allen, who is just amazing as a comedian.

I love comedy. I don't approach it any different. I'm not a comedian. I'm not a stand-up. I just do it like a part and personally, I love to watch comedies. If you don't get to do what you like to watch you get frustrated.

Every single comedian in Canada is now living in the United States.

I don't do drama. I'm a comedian.

If you don't laugh, you're going to cry and people are crying. That's why I guess you have lots of people like comedians to keep us laughing.

I’m not a comedian, but I love the comedians who know when to get off the stage.

I have a pretty fresh delivery. I feel that I am probably more of a dramatic actor, but I'm also a comedian. Every day I am polishing up my skills.

I'm such a fan of Lily's [Tomlin], for so many years. I feel like Lily was the first popular mainstream crossover comedian who also was kind of an overtly feminist comedian.

Ultimately, an audience wants to laugh. That's who they like, the comedian who makes them laugh.

I think there comes a time in any comedian's career where they can either coast or keep growing and evolving.

Dave Chappelle is about as gifted as it gets, as a performer and comedian. [...] It's always great to watch him work. He started around fourteen and he's in his forties now, so he's probably been doing it for close to thirty years. He's brilliant.