Famous Quotes & Sayings

Simon Doonan

Architects are the new comedians.

Tom Green

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

Sacha Baron Cohen

Jews have a tendency to become comedians.

Shelley Berman

Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience.

Shelley Berman

I was an actor before becoming a comedian.

Shelley Berman

As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian.

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.

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.

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.

John Leguizamo

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

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.

Pauly Shore

You have to go away to come back. That's just normal. That's with bands, actors, comedians, everything.

Peter Sarsgaard

If I want to keep working as an actor, I'm going to become a comedian who does fart jokes.

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.

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.

Rob Brydon

If you're a comedian, you are looking for material in daily life.

Rob Corddry

I always fancied myself more of an actor than a comedian before I realized that only assholes make that kind of distinction.

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.

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.

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.

Topher Grace

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