Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tracy Morgan

Comedians are the monkeys of acting. When you go to the zoo, everybody loves the monkey exhibit.

Bob Newhart

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

Bob Newhart

For some reason, comedians are still children. The social skills somehow never reach us, so we say exactly what we think without weighing the results.

Bob Newhart

When I started, I was doing all the good comedians I'd ever seen. Then I developed my own voice. My routines are my natural way of looking at the world.

Miranda Hart

I am pleased to say that I am not a tortured comedian - I laugh a lot. My twenties weren't particularly happy, but it's the same for a lot of people. In your thirties, you realise that your life and your worries are really insignificant, and you have to force yourself to be more positive and take each day as a gift.

Colin Quinn

For the most part, comedians are pretty friendly with each other. They always say they badmouth each other, but most of the time, they're friends. We're the only ones that can really stand our type of humor.

Allison Tolman

As a comedian who's used to, like, punching the jokes, it's hard to teach yourself that that's not the strong choice in the sense that you have to really have to dial it back.

Ian Rush

There are a lot of famous comedians from Liverpool, then obviously the Beatles, and the football club. That's what people in Liverpool are passionate about.

Eddie Huang

My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.

Ursus Wehrli

Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.

Andy Kindler

I don't consider myself a political comedian because it's so hard. It takes time away from me saying terrible things about TV.

David Letterman

I don't mind being accused of being a bad comedian and I don't even mind being accused of being a bad talk-show host, but I never want to be accused of being an arrogant, pompous showbiz asshole.

Dan Rather

Comedians, such as yourself, Jon Stewart and others, are a valuable supplement, and here's why: Good journalism at its best frequently speaks truth to power. What's happened with journalists - again, I don't except myself from this criticism - in some ways we've lost our guts. We need a spine transplant. What's happened is comedians, in their own way, speak truth to power and fill that vacuum that we in journalism have too often left, particularly post 9/11.

Chuck Palahniuk

I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing, they know all of these things that you can only learn by telling a story out loud and interacting with an audience.

Chris Pratt

Who knew Rob Lowe was funny? On 'Parks and Rec,' we've got some of the funniest comedy writers, some of the funniest comedians in the world working there. And if anything, we don't just effuse to one another and be like, 'Oh, Rob Lowe's really funny,' if he wasn't.

Colin Quinn

My perception is that Jerry was a stand-up comedian for years and years,

Matt is the comedian on the team. He's just a loveable guy. He's easy-going, and you can always talk to him.

Drew Carey

I wanted to do a show based on what my life would be like if I had never become a comedian.

Drew Carey

When I did Comic Relief, I did it to be on the show; it's a badge of honor as a comedian to do that show.

Doug Stanhope

The Internet has done nothing but good for comedy all around. Comedians no longer have to rely on TV execs and club owners deciding if they are funny or not.

Cynthia Heimel

A comedian is not funny unless he is taking his demons out for a walk.

e. e. cummings

Like the burlesque comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement.

Dave Allen

Am I the Irish comedian with half a finger? No, I'm the Irish comedian with nine and a half fingers.

Dana Snyder

I know a lot about Jewish comedians.

Dane Cook

I love hecklers. They remind you that you are a comedian.

David Letterman

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

Dick Gregory

To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.

Anthony Anderson

You say you're a comedian, you always have to be on guard.

Anthony Anderson

I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

It's famous that comedians have a very dark personal state of mind. I think, in my case, it's the same. The only way to get deep is to have a balance, or a counterbalance.

Mike Birbiglia

When I moved to New York, I was wide-eyed. I was nice to everyone, which comedians hate.

Tracy Morgan

So I think all comedians are earning their wings into heaven. We're all going to heaven, but everybody's not going to get their wings. Some people are just going to be regular angels. Doing cleanup, janitor work. In heaven, I'm going to sit on the couch with Oprah.

Bruce Forsyth

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