Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry David

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

Taylor Momsen

I love comedy. If I could be a comedian - well, I probably would not take that job because it seems really hard, but I wish I could be.

Tatiana Maslany

For me, comedians are like the epitome for everything great, and they terrify me. I just want to be them. I want to be like them.

Tom Green

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

Ron White

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.

Ron White

I'm a comedian, and I like to work on my live show, and if I'm doing television, I don't have time to work on my live show, and I can become a lame comic, and that sucks.

Tom Leykis

There really is no Johnny Carson anymore. There is no one place a comedian can appear and explode.

Steve Harvey

Comedians walk out, get a feel for the crowd. If it's not going good, we change directions. If we got to drag your momma into this thing, we will. Whatever we got to do.

Steve Martin

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

Steve Buscemi

My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom.

Kevin Hart

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

Katy Perry

Using blasphemy as entertainment is as cheap as a comedian telling a fart joke.

Sean William Scott

I've been doing comedies but I'm not a comedian.

Liam Neeson

I'm trying to be a comedian, you know?

Lenny Bruce

I'm not a comedian. I'm Lenny Bruce.

Lenny Bruce

Every group needs a comedian. A comic who is politically incorrect at the Berkeley campus might slay them at a Klan rally.

Hank Azaria

When you mimic everyone, sometimes authority figures really don't appreciate it which is not an original story. And pretty much every comedian has some tale of that.

Jamie Kennedy

I've probably wanted to be a rapper since I was a teenager. I was an actor and comedian and stuff, but I always wanted to rap, it was another outlet.

Rory Bremner

In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.

Roberto Benigni

Only comedians can talk about death, life, God and Virgin Mary. If I was a tragic actor, I couldn't allow myself. But with this accent I can do it. I can talk with death in person because I am a clown. Yes. And I am proud to be a clown - very much.

Robert Wyatt

I consider myself a sit-down comedian really, as much as anything else. I love comedy. Life is a cosmic joke.

Richard Pryor

Unfortunately, the show's success comes at the expense of its biggest asset -- the comedians themselves.

Tucker Carlson

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

Trevor Noah

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

Uma Thurman

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.

Topher Grace

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

Rowan Atkinson

I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.

Robyn Hitchcock

I could never be a professional comedian, 'cause you have to keep telling the same jokes. For me, they're like word solos.

Wendy Liebman

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.

Jeff Garlin

Comedians sometimes forget that there's an audience. You gotta be conscious that you're performing for other human beings.

Jenny Slate

I am a comedian and I started in stand-up when I was 22.

Jenny Slate

Sometimes you watch comedians and feel like they're jerking off in front of you, but they want you to see how big it is.

Jim Gaffigan

Comedians rarely have writers, and if you do it's usually a sign of laziness.