Comedian Quotes - Page 2

• Being a comedian, people tell me stuff they shouldn't tell their therapist.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Humor, People

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• The pressure to being a comedian is being funny, but I've given that up, so there is no pressure whatsoever.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Pressure, Given, Being Funny

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  Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.

  Jimmy Durante

  Radio, Developing

  Information Week, Issues 699-702, (p. 497), 1998.

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• It's good to be funny when you are a comedian.

  George Lindsey

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• I'm a comedian, for God's sake. Viewers shouldn't trust me. And you know what? They're hip enough to know they shouldn't trust me. I'm just doing stand-up comedy.

  Dennis Miller

  Trust, Hips, Sake

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

  Larry David

  Not Interested, Wanted

  "Angry Middle-Aged Man" by James Kaplan, www.newyorker.com. January 19, 2004.

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• I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.

  Ian Mckellen

  Play, Acting, Able

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Dorothy Gish

  Black, Red, Beard

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe Levine said no, I don't want any comedians in this.

  Gene Wilder

  Magic, Directors, Want

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• 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.

  Bob Newhart

  Long, Silence, Doubt

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• It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're writers who perform their own material. It's more interesting. And they're sexy because they risk more. Stand-up comedians risk more than anyone.

  Rachel Weisz

  Sexy, Interesting, Risk

  Interview with Emma Forrest, www.indexmagazine.com. 2001.

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• 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

  Russell Brand

  Beautiful, Thinking, Perfect

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• I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

  Adam Sandler

  Guy, Actors, Excited

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Happiness, Smile

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• The best advice I've ever received is, 'No one else knows what they're doing either.

  Ricky Gervais

  Funny, Knowing, Advice

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

  Jim Gaffigan

  Likes, Remember, Grammar

  FaceBook post by Jim Gaffigan from Apr 24, 2012

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• Funny how women are ashamed of their inner fairy whereas men are forever proudly displaying their inner cowboy or fireman

  Dawn French

  Women, Cowboy, Forever

  Dawn French (2010). “A Tiny Bit Marvellous”, p.181, Penguin UK

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• Don't censor yourself to comfort their ignorance.

  Jon Stewart

  Ignorance, Comforting, Ignorant People

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• It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.

  Hugh Laurie

  Time, Procrastination, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Hugh Laurie from Aug 10, 2015

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• I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort of dried up for a lot of really bad comedians.

  Patton Oswalt

  Mean, Ponds, Late

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• Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Humor, Actors, Imitation

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

  Ade Edmondson

  Smart, Sassy, Endearing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Anthony Anderson

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians.

  Ben E. King

  Vegas, Las Vegas

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Rory Bremner

  Age, Satirist

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