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“As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit.”

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Author:Kevin Nealon

“I'm probably more of a stand-up comedian than an actor.”

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Author:Kevin Nealon

“Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.”

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Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

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

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Author:Rowan Atkinson

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

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Author:Anthony Anderson

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

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Author:Anthony Anderson

“Maybe if I could ever be a successful comedian then I could be an example that Christians can also have fun.”

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Author:Victoria Jackson

“I think that we're in a really amazing time, where there are really a lot of really fantastic female actresses and comedians. I imagine there's just a lot of opportunity for women to have powerful roles. Or it's just that there's more women writing TV. Women tend to maybe write strong women.”

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Author:Whitney Cummings

“I believe that any type of education can be great, but an education about ourselves can create something wonderful. I am a comedian, but people have called me a motivational speaker. I don't really consider myself that at all.”

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Author:Andy Andrews

“You know, I'm a comedian the same as Bill Maher and Jon Stewart. We all came up the same way. The three of us have interest in politics; I call us fundits, we're fundits! We're not pundits!”

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Author:Joy Behar

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

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Author:Rob Brydon

“I've never tried to pass myself off as anything more than a comedian who wrote a dating book.”

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Author:Greg Behrendt

“Part of being a comedian is that it's your job to look at life and regurgitate it in a funny way, to point out its absurdities.”

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Author:Greg Behrendt

“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.”

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Author:Roberto Benigni

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

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Author:Rory Bremner

“I made sure that instead of people making fun of me, like every comedian probably says, I made fun of myself first so they would get distracted and just laugh. I was pretty brutally picked on for a while growing up. It was always the really pretty girls, the hot girls and then there was me. So I had to do something to get any sort of attention.”

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Author:Eliza Coupe

“I was trained classically, and that's something that I want to do, but I do want to say that right now it's a good market for female comedians, and I want to explore that right now. I really do want to do dramas and meatier roles, especially film.”

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Author:Eliza Coupe

“A lot of comedians, when they have a bad gig, will blame everything but themselves. They'll blame the crowd, or the room was wrong, it had a weird vibe, or the promoter promoted a weird atmosphere.”

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Author:Allen Carr

“I didn't really want to be a comedian.”

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Author:Allen Carr

“That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.”

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Author:Dana Carvey

“It's so clear cut with a comedian - you have that reflex action, whereby you laugh or you don't. And so you either love us or you simply cannot see why people are laughing.”

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Author:Jimmy Carr

“Jews have a tendency to become comedians.”

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Author:Sacha Baron Cohen

“When you see a crowd of people jumping up and down at a pop concert, all gloriously in the moment, I don't think you'll ever see a comedian there. They'll all be standing at the sides, looking at how it all fits together.”

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Author:Steve Coogan

“I never saw myself as a comedian. I saw myself as a guy who can act funny.”

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Author:Charlie Day

“I'm not a comedian, I'm an actor.”

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Author:Chris Diamantopoulos

“I'm a big fan of comedians not having to apologize for anything. Nowadays it seems comedians are always apologizing for being funny.”

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Author:Kevin Dillon

“Comedians who are 22 years old can certainly be funny and clever, and be capable of telling jokes - but are they talking about their favorite TV shows, or a particular brand of shampoo?”

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Author:Rob Delaney

“I'm a comedian at the beginning and the end of the day. I'm not affiliated with any campaign, nor do I generally find politics interesting enough to plan to be involved.”

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Author:Rob Delaney

“The danger for a comedian on Twitter is the same danger that any civilian faces: sometimes you gotta put that phone down and go live your life. When you're on Twitter, you're not living, and if you're not living, you're not taking in stimuli with which you can create new material.”

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Author:Rob Delaney

“Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians.”

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Author:Paula Danziger

“I want to be a little more dramatic nowadays. I definitely want something big and funny, but I look for things that can just have people see me in a different light and let me mature as both an entertainer and an actor and a comedian.”

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Author:Cedric the Entertainer

“I think it's a comedian's job to make everything funny. Nothing is off-limits.”

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Author:Donald Glover

“I was with a famous comedian when a young fan walked up and asked for an autograph. The comedian blew him off. I'll never forget the look on the young boy's face. He was devastated.”

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Author:Louie Anderson

“Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.”

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Author:Ade Edmondson

“My wife asked me once if I weren't a comedian, what I would do. I couldn't answer the question. I never imagined doing anything else.”

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Author:Dave Chappelle

“Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.”

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Author:Rachel Dratch

“I feel like Jim Carrey is probably the closest thing to a true physical comedian that we have working today.”

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Author:Josh Gad

“I was like a Borscht Belt comedian trapped in the body of a 6-year-old. I was channeling Jackie Mason at 7.”

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Author:Josh Gad

“Even as a little child, I've always had that comedian kind of attitude.”

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Author:Etta James

“A comedian is sort of like a wild animal. It really just depends on where you catch them. Sometimes they want to cuddle up, and sometimes they'll snap at you. But for me, more often than not, if I'm talking to somebody who makes their living in comedy, it'll be a very thoughtful conversation driven from an emotionally honest place.”

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Author:Nick Kroll

“Anyone you give a ton of money to is going to go slightly crazy. I don't think comedians are particularly special in that regard; they just are better or more vocal in their expressions of their craziness.”

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Author:Nick Kroll

“But if applause throws off your timing, then you're not the kind of comedian I would like to see. All you have to do is stand there and take it.”

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Author:Jay Mohr

“When I grew up, I lived in the ghettos of Hollywood; it was the most disgusting place to be. I was known as the crazy little kid. I did impressions. Then I realized that's not what I want to do. I don't want to be a comedian to please other people.”

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Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

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