Best Comedian Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 25

“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.”

Today Film Gone Comedy Tomorrow Comedian Bored Routine Stand Up Comedy Stand Up Comedian Here Today Gone Tomorrow

Author:Vir Das

“Twitter makes you a comedian in the same way that digital cameras make you a photographer”

Way Cameras Photographer Comedian Digital Digital Cameras

Author:Ken Jennings

“I know a lot about Jewish comedians.”

Knows Comedian

Author:Dana Snyder

“Keep laughing. As long as you’re laughing you still have hope.”

Inspirational Long Stills Hope Laughing Laughter Comedian Having Hope

Author:Moe Howard

“I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anyone else to feel like that.”

“I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.”

People Thinking Knows World Want Giving Facts Path Comedian

Author:Mary Cheney

“Comedy is something that I'm definitely looking to get into. I had a little taste of it and I do intend on going to classes for it because I think it's a different muscle, and it's hard to find female comedians.”

Thinking Littles Different Hard Class Comedy Taste Female Comedian Muscles Female Comedian

Author:Ashley Greene

“The idea of a Japanese comedian was not only a rarity, it was non-existent.”

Ideas Atheism Comedian Rarity

Author:Pat Morita

“Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.”

Radio Developing Comedian

Author:Jimmy Durante

“Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story.”

Long Stories Silence Doubt Comedy Quiet Comedian

Author:Bob Newhart

“Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.”

Funny Laughing Busy Comedian Too Busy Analyzing Busy Life

Author:James Lipton

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

Comedian Holding On Up North

Author:Johnny Vegas

“When I was a kid, I loved all the silent comedians - Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin. And I used to imitate them. I'd go to see a Buster Keaton movie and come home and try things out I'd seen. I learned to do pratfalls when I was very young.”

Trying Home Kids Young Used Silent Comedian Coming Home Hardy Laurels Chaplin Busters Laurel And Hardy

Author:Dick Van Dyke

“Whenever you correct someone's grammar just remember that nobody likes you.”

Remember Likes Comedian Grammar Spelling Humorists Correcting

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“Architects are the new comedians.”

Comedian Architect

Author:Simon Doonan

“I was influenced by every comedian I ever saw work. That's the only way you learn how to do it.”

Way Saws Comedy Comedian Reefs

Author:Bob Newhart

“They proved that if you quit smoking, it will prolong your life. What they haven't proved is that a prolonged life is a good thing. I haven't seen the stats on that yet.”

Ifs Life Life Is Havens Good Things Quitting Comedian Smoking Cigarette Proven Humorists Quit Smoking Prolonging

Author:Bill Hicks

“I thought I better warn you that I am not one of those politically correct comedians, but it turns out that also I'm not really that racist, homophobic or woman hating either, so you might not notice”

Might Hate Turns Comedian Racist Politically Correct Homophobic

Author:Robin Ince

“I never really thought of myself as a sex goddess; I felt I was more a comedian who could dance.”

Sex Felt Comedian Goddess

Author:Rita Hayworth

“If I get big laughs, I'm a comedian. If I get little laughs, I'm a humorist. If I get no laughs, I'm a singer.”

Ifs Littles Bigs Laughing Singers Comedian Humorists

Author:George Burns

“Soft rock music isn’t rock, and it ain’t music. It’s just soft.”

Humor Funny Rocks Music Is Comedian Rock Music Tropical Third Grade Guatemala

Author:George Carlin

“A comedian is not a person who opens a funny door - he's the person who opens a door funny.”

Persons Doors Comedian

Author:Chuck Jones

“In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive.”

“Feeling unsure and lost is part of your path. Don't avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it.”

Feels Use Feelings Lost Path Seeing Wise Words Directors Producers Comedian Editors Avoiding Unsure Feeling Lost

Author:Louis C. K.

“Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.”

Long Funny Comedy Directors Humorous Shots Tragedy Producers Comedian Screenwriters Long Shots

Author:Buster Keaton

“I'm not for everyone. I'm barely for me.”

Funny Entertainment Comedian Entertainers Podcasting

Author:Marc Maron

“Jay Wexler is my kind of writer--a weird one, and a wry one, and one who isnt afraid to act silly in a sort of bait-and-switch that, to the readers surprise, moves him as much as it makes him laugh. Like all the best comedians, Wexler is clearly nursing a heart that the world broke a long time ago. Ed Tuttle is a book that cant decide what it wants to be when it grows up, but as with most cases of arrested development, theres something very serious going on behind all the antics. Plus, there are pictures.”

“I've never set out to write a funny movie or be a funny comedian as a woman. I am a woman. I don't really have a choice in the matter. My goal is just to be funny.”

Writing Matter Choices Goal Comedian Funny Comedian

Author:Maya Rudolph

“Every comedian comes to a fork in the road where they have to decide if they're going to make jokes about other people or make jokes about themselves. I chose myself.”

People Ifs Jokes Comedian Forks Fork In The Road

Author:Mike Birbiglia

“It really helps a comedian to be an outsider.”

Helping Comedian Outsiders

Author:John Oliver

“It takes many years to be a great comedian.”

Years Comedian

Author:Don Rickles

“To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.”

Trying Firsts Different Guy Comedian

Author:Don Rickles

“Louis C. K. is one of my all time favorite standup comedians.”

All Time Comedian All Time Favorite

Author:Aubrey Plaza

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

Comedian Hecklers

Author:Dane Cook

“Sometimes, as a comedian, a line will come to you, that is so beautiful, so perfect, that you think: I did not create this line. This line belongs to all of us. Surely this is a line of God”

Thinking Sometimes Beautiful Lines Perfect Comedian

Author:Russell Brand

“All comedians are a bit attention-seeking and I'm no different. Anyone with the audacity to want to be listened to for an hour and a half must be.”

Want Different Bits Hours Attention Half Seeking Comedian Audacity Attention Seeking

Author:Jimmy Carr

“The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.”

Levels Emotional Comedian

Author:John Krasinski

“I'm all about showing people that I'm a little messed up, I have a lot of the same problems you have. By exposing myself and putting myself out there, people can relate to me and my act won't grow stale. I mean, nobody wants to hear a comedian say, 'Life is great.'”

People Want Mean Littles Problem Life Is Grows Relate Comedian Exposing Stale Messed Up Life Is Great

Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.”

Enough Goal Tvs Sells Comedian

Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“I spent more time in America, but I developed a very English sense of humour. I clicked into it deeply with Peter Sellers, who is still probably my favourite comedian.”

Stills America Humour Comedian More Time Peter Favourite Sellers

Author:Christopher Guest

“When I think of myself, I'm definitely... I'm not like a comedian.”

Thinking Comedian

Author:Dave Franco

“Ricky Gervais would have you believe otherwise, but Sacha Baron Cohen is the most successful British comedian in the world.”

World Believe Successful British Comedian

Author:David Walliams

“As a comedian, I think you need to keep things real.”

Thinking Needs Real Comedian

Author:Judah Friedlander

“With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.”

Trying Understanding Laughing Comedian

Author:Colin Quinn

“That’s the beauty of being a comedian: it’s the one job you’re allowed to do that. We’re lucky. We’re really lucky.”

Jobs Lucky Comedian

Author:Colin Quinn

“I would love to do a serious period drama. Oh, absolutely. I mean, you'll find most comedians want to do more serious stuff, most musicians want to be comedians, and most serious actors want to be musicians.”

Want Mean Actors Stuff Serious Periods Drama Musician Comedian

Author:Amy Poehler

“A comedian is someone who tells the truth. Truth is the set of all jokes told by all comedians in the world.”

World Truth Is Jokes Comedian Telling The Truth

Author:Piero Scaruffi

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

Faces Black Red Comedian Beard Red Lips

Author:Dorothy Gish

“I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I'm a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I want to deny you the relief of the punchline.”

People Thinking Want Natural Chance Laughing Speech Deny Comedian Relief Lunch Ethos Punchlines

Author:Lydia Lunch

“They don't make you pay for the humor. It's up and down, but they're trying to give you as many laughs as possible in 2 minutes. They are the most honest comedians ever.”

Giving Trying Humor Pay Laughing Minutes Honest Comedian Up And Down

Author:Mike Judge

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