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“I used to think of myself as a comedian. I've always admired comedians. Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There's a liberation in that.”

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Book:Al Pacino

Source: Al Pacino

“If you call me a comedian I will be very grateful. I will thank you profoundly. No, I love doing comedy. It's fun once in a while to do a serious part but I really enjoy doing comedy because I love to laugh.”

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Author:Betty White

“I first wanted to be a comedian when I was six or seven and my dad showed me Laurel and Hardy's "Perfect Day" on tv.”

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Author:Will Smith

“I never had the confidence to say I was going to be in front of the camera as a comedian until I saw Eddie Murphy years later.”

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Author:Chris Rock

“Though part of me had always wanted to be a comedian, another part of me had always wanted to be Bryant Gumbel or Dan Rather.”

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Author:Chris Rock

“Being a comedian is a lot like being an athlete. If you're Carl Lewis and you're the fastest, then no matter what you're the fastest.”

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Author:Chris Rock

“You just got to be really logical when you're a comedian - to a fault. Like a lawyer's got to believe in the law.”

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Author:Chris Rock

“A comedian has to live in his head. All this comedy comes from a lonely place. When you're surrounded by an entourage, you're not living in your head.”

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Author:Chris Rock

“There's not one reference in that thing that doesn't play. People deal with emotions in music all the time, but comedians are always talking about what they see. But we seldom talk about what we feel.”

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Author:Chris Rock

“I always wanted to be a comedian, even when I was a little kid. I had a funny father who was in the news business, by the way. He was a radio news guy. So the news was always in my house, and funny was always in my house. It was sort of just baked into the DNA that I would do this for a living, but I can remember being less than 10 years old and dreaming about being a comedian.”

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Author:Bill Maher

“I gravitated toward being a funny guy. I liked the radio comedians. I lived in the Golden Age of radio, and the Golden Age of television came along when I was still in my early teens.”

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Author:George Carlin

“I became a guy who wanted to be a comedian someday, or a comic actor. The way I put it was, I'll be like Danny Kaye. He was kind of the model I had in mind.”

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Author:George Carlin

“I'm not collegial, I don't hang out. I'm soloist, I like my solitude, I don't really hang around with comedians.”

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Author:George Carlin

“Some comedians really are funnier than others. Some people really are more beautiful than others. But these are true only because of the kinds of creatures we happen to be; the perceptual apparatus - apparati - that we happen to have.”

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Author:Jonathan Haidt

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

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Author:Tom Green

“For stand-up comedians that go onstage and get to write and perform and direct, and do all these things, the allure of a television show is still there but if it doesn't offer a level of creative fulfillment, it's oddly unappealing.”

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Author:Jim Gaffigan

“The whole idea of celebrity is flattering - it helps you get into restaurants and stuff - but once you obtain some creative fulfillment, which you do on a nightly basis as a comedian, it's hard to give that up just to be the wacky neighbor on a show.”

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Author:Jim Gaffigan

“I personally have no interest in being a star or a celebrity. I want my stand-up comedy and how I think as a comedian to be recognized and successful.”

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Author:Jim Gaffigan

“The toughest nights when I was a young, unknown comedian were opening for these real old-time Italian singers. I'm like Grace Jones to them. "This guy is nuts-talking about socks. Where's the wife jokes, where's the fat jokes?"”

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Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“Everyone goes "every comedian does Arnold Schwarzenegger". Yes, they do; but do they do Arnold Schwarzenegger in Brokeback Mountain?”

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Author:Pablo Francisco

“When I get up in the morning, I go and I work with beautiful women and charming men and funny comedians and dramatic artists. And I'm presented with costumes and great music to choose from and sets. I travel a certain amount of places, so I've been living in a bubble. And I like it.”

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Author:Woody Allen

“You are always a comedian by default. You are this way because you've been forced to be this way, but it is better to be the hero. So if you can be a persona, the great one of my lifetime of course was and is Marlon Brando.”

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Author:Woody Allen

“I'm a comedian. I make comic films and there are certain ideas that occur to me that are comic, with heavy, serious undertones. There are some ideas that are more frivolous to me. The next idea that could occur to me could be comedy about death and famine or something.”

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Author:Woody Allen

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

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Author:Trevor Noah

“I think, as a comedian, the funniest you can be is with people you know, and [whom] you've known for years, in a pub. That's as funny as you get, and so the aim [while stand-up] is to get that funny on stage with 5,000 strangers, to get that funny in a room where people shouldn't be listening but they are.”

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Author:Ricky Gervais

“Funny bones, to me, are more important than funny lines. If a comedian is just not likable and doing the lines, you could read them yourself. Whereas if someone [you like] shambles out, and they tell you what a bad day they've had, they don't have to say anything. I love them. I want to hug them because they've been through something. And it comes back to empathy, always empathy.”

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Author:Ricky Gervais

“Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography.”

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Author:Paul Rodriguez

“There have been many definitions of hell, but for the English the best definition is that it is the place where the Germans are the police, the Swedish are the comedians, the Italians are the defense force, Frenchmen dig the roads, the Belgians are the pop singers, the Spanish run the railways, the Turks cook the food, the Irish are the waiters, the Greeks run the government, and the common language is Dutch.”

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Author:David Frost

“We mustn't complain too much of being comedians - it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed - that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men.”

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Book:The Comedians

Source: The Comedians

“Canadian comedians are generally more well-rounded... They have to do a lot more. In order to have a career in this country, you have to do everything. And in the States you can narrow-cast, you can be just a sitcom performer or a stand-up comedian or a sketch performer.”

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Author:Scott Thompson

“Life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.”

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Author:Bill Hicks

“It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.”

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Author:Bill Hicks

“Chevy Chase and Bill Murray - we thought those guys were funny. We love Bill Murray, but we didn't think they were right for Airplane! because it would step on the joke if there was a known comedian.”

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Author:David Zucker

“The only one that got through was Jimmy Walker, because he plays the gas station attendant. I mean, there's nothing wrong with it, it's just that we were kind of purists at the time, and we didn't want any comedians.”

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Author:David Zucker

“I put a new engine in my car, but forgot to take the old one out. Now my car goes 500 miles per hour. The harmonica sounds amazing.”

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Author:Steven Wright

“I'm an actor, I'm not a comedian, I never was a comedian.”

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Author:Jonah Hill

“I don't know if I even consider myself a comedian really - I do comedic acting in some films and dramatic in others.”

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Author:Kristen Wiig

“Everyone thinks I'm a comedian - which I am and are. I was born into a comedic family but I'm trained as an actor.”

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Author:Marlon Wayans

“The skill of a good actor is to make it always seem like you're in that fantastically spontaneous moment. Very often, a stand-up comedian has a different instinct, which is to reinvent. Once you've laid down some material, and made them laugh, you move on and find some new material.”

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Author:Colin Firth

“I often think it can often be very difficult for comedians to revisit the same gag. I think Russell's a bit more than a comedian.”

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Author:Colin Firth

“Most comedians want to be the architect of their own embarrassment. They have horrible self-esteem issues. I would rather push myself into the mud. I don't want to be pushed into the mud. I think that is probably true. I think most people struggle with self-acceptance. But comedians get a chance to self externalize.”

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Author:Mike Myers

“Sometimes I don't want to go out and socialize; I just want to watch my favorite shows and comedians. But then I have to remember that it is important to participate in life if you want to portray real life on screen.”

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Author:Josh Peck

“If you make a bad movie about stand-up, then comedians will mock you for the rest of your life.”

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Author:Judd Apatow

“The first comedians I became fascinated with were the Marx brothers. I couldn't get enough of them. Later in life, I thought, "Well, maybe it's because they were so rebellious and they were just flipping the bird to society and all the rules we're supposed to follow." They were saying that none of it is fair.”

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Author:Judd Apatow

“My problem with being in New York City is that you really can't make a living as a comedian. You can, but you have to also take writing jobs, which means less stage time.”

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Author:Mike Birbiglia

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

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Author:Robyn Hitchcock

“I always made people laugh, and everybody wanted me to sit at the table with them. I don't joke as much as I used to, but I can still be a little comedian every now and then.”

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Author:Missy Elliot

“Jewish comedians do the best Jewish jokes, and anyone else doing that, they don't have a right to, because they're not coming from that experience. I know that's a slightly heightened example, but it's the same thing. We're bumpkins, so we can make bumpkin jokes.”

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Author:Simon Pegg

“You get to a certain point, especially if you're a comedian, where people think certain things. It's like, I don't take the time to explain it to people, it's just part of what I do.”

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Author:Denis Leary

“I'm glad that that era of stand-up is over, because I think it adversely affected a lot of people who could have been really, really great comedians. Because they unconsciously or subconsciously stifled their wild impulses, and were thinking about the five clean minutes for The Tonight Show, or the 20-minute sitcom pitch as a stand-up act.”

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Author:Patton Oswalt

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