Comedian Quotes - Page 6

I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

Comedy is crowded. There are hundreds of comedians in every place in the world.

I considered myself a professional comedian because the club would pay me $20.

Comedians are sociologists. We're pointing out stuff that the general public doesn't even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

I'm a comedian first. I've learned how to act. I just draw on life experiences and that's how I've learned. I didn't take classes or anything. I don't need no classroom.

I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them.

I was considered by my peers to be a good comedian. So that's all I ever strived to do was get some recognition from my peers.

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

I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.

I do what I do because there's nothing else for me to do. This is what I'm supposed to be doing. It is in my soul to spread love and laughter. Even if I wasn't an actress or a comedian, I would be spreading love and laughter [with] whatever I did.

Up North you are holding your own. Everyone considers themselves a comedian.

By watching the great, old comedians I picked up a few tricks about how to do physical comedy. And whenever I could learn something, I sort of added that to my repertoire.

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

A comedian needs to have his own filters, needs to know his audience, how far he can push things.

The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.

Rick Shapiro is a top comedian.

It's good to be funny when you are a comedian.

I think of a lot of comedy being watched alone, for some reason. It's surprising to me that people are getting together to watch stand-up comedy.

And I'm up while the dawn is breaking, even though my heart is aching. I should be drinking a toast to absent friends instead of these comedians.

I thought comedians had to have black on their faces or red beards.

I would like a ship for the hips, please. Ships and hips. Hipsters to stir with their hips on the hip ships. And, of course, hips. Yeah, hip. That's me. I also like sips. I'm a slow drinker. A sipster. I'm a sipster hipster comedian. Yeah, sips. But more hips. Hip, hipster, hip star, hiptard. Definitely.

There is plenty of television. There are plenty of talk shows. There are plenty of comedians. But there is not plenty of worship of the true and living God.

A comedian sees the world bent. I'm tangent to the circle.

I'm friends with a lot of comedians, but we don't talk about material. Most comedians I know don't watch a lot of other comedy.