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

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn't have that kind of personality, and it's a terrifying thing to say. — Jerry Seinfeld

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. — Chris Rock

What I say is stupid. Who takes a comedian seriously? I'm doing sophisticated knock-knock jokes. — Carlos Mencia

No comedian's wife thinks he's funny. The first few years of the marriage, maybe. I was funny as hell the first couple of years. — Tom Smothers

A comedian needs to have his own filters, needs to know his audience, how far he can push things. — Jeff Dunham

As a comedian, as an entertainer, there's a lot of downtime. Once you can accept that comedy is a marathon, not a sprint, it gets a little easier. — Iliza Shlesinger

Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He's an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but also very smart and not afraid to show vulnerability. — Douglas Wood

Because you make me laugh don't make you a comic. A comedian is a person who, that's how they make their living. — Dick Gregory

Unfortunately, the show's success comes at the expense of its biggest asset
the comedians themselves. — Richard Pryor

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research. — Steven Wright

I've always thought of myself as an African-American comedian, African-American man, everything. — Jordan Peele

Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken. — Joe Rogan

Comedians are a much rarer and far more valuable commodity than all the gold and precious stones in the world. — Groucho Marx

I thought comedians had to have black on their faces or red beards. — Dorothy Gish

Comedian Milton Berle once said, 'If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door!' In — Ashwin Sanghi

All comedians are preoccupied with one thing and with one thing only-themmm-selllves. It's a horrible lot in life. — David Letterman

If you watch the arcs of so many comedians, at some point, they just become themselves. — Judd Apatow

Contrary to what certain comedians have led you to believe, the national French pastime is picnicking. — Bob Hope

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

What really got my goat at MGM were comedians like The Marx Brothers who never wrote their own jokes. — Buster Keaton

Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything. — Meg Rosoff

As a comedian, I think you need to keep things real. — Judah Friedlander

Being a comedian, people tell me stuff they shouldn't tell their therapist. — Jeff Foxworthy

The whole country was tied together by radio. We all experienced the same heroes and comedians and singers. They were giants. — Woody Allen

I always wanted to be a comedian, but I wasn't sure how you do that. — Ron Shock

I think the job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but also challenge them to laugh at things they didn't know they could until now. — Ricky Gervais

A comedian can only last till he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious. — Will Rogers

You can't hold me to the same standard as the president or a school teacher. I'm just a comedian. My job is like Archie Bunker. — Tracy Morgan

There really is no Johnny Carson anymore. There is no one place a comedian can appear and explode. — Tom Leykis

I didn't plan on being a comedian. I didn't plan on getting married and I didn't plan on having kids, but I did all those things. — Rodney Carrington

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

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. — Tatiana Maslany

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

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. — Steven Wright

When you do stuff as a comedian, Hollywood sees you as a comedian and so most of the calls I get are for a funny movie or something like that. — Cedric The Entertainer

I'm friends with a lot of comedians, but we don't talk about material. Most comedians I know don't watch a lot of other comedy. — Bo Burnham

I don't have credibility, I'm a comedian. — Dennis Miller

I'm a comedian, and my comedy has never endorsed violence towards gays. — Sam Kinison

Twitter makes you a comedian in the same way that digital cameras make you a photographer — Ken Jennings

I come from the stage. I started my career as a stand-up comedian and then later on became an actor. — Patrick Huard

Even as a little child, I've always had that comedian kind of attitude. — Etta James

I'm a comedian who happens to be Latino. What's the difference? The difference is, my special will air on Comedy Central, not Telemundo. — Gabriel Iglesias

Comedians have a tendency to have a limited range, they tend to do one thing and do it very well, but it's limited. — Woody Allen

As a standup comedian, I've worked almost every New Year's Eve of my adult life. It's the best-paying night of the year. — Elayne Boosler

Being a comedian is like being a con man. You have to make 'em like you before you can fool 'em. — Flip Wilson

Comedians have the ability to feel other emotions. — Bill Burr

I just respected comedians whether they were or they weren't, from, you know, new or old. — Steve Martin

When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian. — Tommy Chong

I have what we call a 'symphony act.' I'm the only comedian, I think, in the country that does it. — Robert Klein

I don't think being a comedian gives you any fucking insight into what makes people laugh. — Craig Ferguson

I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you couldn't be a comedian. — Colin Quinn

I feel sorry for confetti. Its useful life lasts about two seconds. And it can never be used again. — George Carlin

I'm a goofball and a comedian — Kid Cudi

I never wanted to be a magician. I never wanted to be a comedian. I never wanted to be onstage. — Penn Jillette

I never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it. — Omar Sy

I think it's a comedian's job to make everything funny. Nothing is off-limits. — Donald Glover

Comedy is crowded. There are hundreds of comedians in every place in the world. — Trevor Noah

I'm not a politician, I'm a comedian. I know my limitations. — Bernie Mac

Jason [Sudeikis] is a successful actor and comedian, I don't think that he takes comedic roles any less seriously than he does dramatic roles. — Taron Egerton

When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.' — Susan Sarandon

Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners. — Camille Paglia

I'm not a comedian, I'm an actor. — Chris Diamantopoulos

Every night was improv. — Kliph Nesteroff

I'm an actor, I'm not a comedian, I never was a comedian. — Jonah Hill

If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating. — Paul Merton

I like seeing what the comedian thinks is funny, not just what they think I'll think is funny. — Anthony Jeselnik

You can make fun of yourself and people will laugh at you. If you're smart, you'll end up as a comedian. If you're not, you'll end up as a clown. — Ljupka Cvetanova

Like the burlesque comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. — E. E. Cummings

The comedian can put the punchline out there, but it's the audience that receives it - and has to get it. — Rachel Sklar

We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Karaoke isn't fair when you're a comedian. The whole idea is to get people laughing and enjoying themselves, and I'm a professional funny guy. — Chris Rock

I'm probably more of a stand-up comedian than an actor. — Kevin Nealon

Everyone goes "every comedian does Arnold Schwarzenegger". Yes, they do; but do they do Arnold Schwarzenegger in Brokeback Mountain? — Pablo Francisco

I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself. — Paul Feig

Down deep in His heart God is a comedian who loves to make us laugh. — Arthur Miller

There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously. — Barry Humphries

Meal isn't over when I'm full. Meal's over when I hate myself. — Patton Oswalt

As a comedian I appreciate every kind of comedy. You decide for yourself what you're going to do. — Jeff Foxworthy

Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense. — Alan Moore

The funniest thing a comedian can do is not do it. — W.C. Fields

I better start doing stand up comedy in Spanish before every comedian in Mexico translates my jokes. — Felipe Esparza

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. — Will Smith

I might've been witty, but I didn't have a shtick. So, I never considered myself a comedian. — Scott Adsit

An offended audience member repeating a comedian's act from memory is worse than, literally, anything. — Anthony Jeselnik

If you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you're doing okay. — Eddie Izzard

You have to be delusional to be a comedian. — Mike Birbiglia

I'm funny. I'm a comedian. I'm not a clown. — Bernie Mac

There is this false perception that comedians can never be serious. It's like from like the era of court jesters. — Jim Gaffigan

I don't think of myself as funny - I don't fill up a room with my humor ... I would fail miserably as a stand-up comedian. — Steve Carell

A comedian does funny things. A good comedian does things funny. — Buster Keaton

When you battle with your conscience and lose, you win. -Henny Youngman, comedian and violinist (1906-1998) — Henny Youngman

It really helps a comedian to be an outsider. — John Oliver

I thought she was the funniest woman, and I believed being a comedian was the most exciting thing you could be. — Maya Rudolph

I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes. — Laura Benanti

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh. — Voltaire

People who become comedians ... come from pain, come from conflict. — Harvey Korman

The first thing any comedian does on getting an unscheduled laugh is to verify the state of his . — W.C. Fields

Will Rogers used to say he wouldn't run for president no matter how badly the country needed a comedian. — Will Rogers

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth. — George Jean Nathan