Comedian Quotes - page 10

Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really well to get a good performance out of them. But, if you have a comedian on the set, you can tell them, 'Hey, you really are screwing this up,' and then they just get better. (Louis C.K.)
It really helps a comedian to be an outsider. View quote
John Oliver (comedian)
Having a human conversation is not something I've had any training in either as a comedian or as, you know, a human being. View quote
John Oliver (comedian)
I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes. View quote
John Oliver (comedian)
To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps. View quote
Matthew Perry (actor)
I never really thought of myself as a physical comedian. But when I was a kid, I used to, you know, pretend to trip over things to make girls laugh in school and stuff like that. So I kind of learned how to fall without hurting yourself. View quote
Matthew Perry (actor)
My dad knew I was going to be a comedian. When I was a baby, he said, 'Is this a joke? View quote
Ken Dodd
A lot of people think I'm a comedian. View quote
Dolly Parton
I was a film-directing major at NYU. I'm still not sure why I became a directing major, when I was really an actor and a comedian, but there was something that drew me to doing that. View quote
Billy Crystal
I didn't tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it wouldn't happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years. View quote
Steven Wright
I'm standing behind a wall of jokes. You don't know about my personal life, my girlfriends, or what I do when I'm not on the road. There's this guy, this comedian, and this is how he thinks, but people really don't know anything about me. (Steven Wright)
Oh yeah, I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays. View quote
Michael Gambon
There's something about being a parent that has, I think, made me a better comedian. View quote
Jim Gaffigan
Comics write to their point of view. If you're an exceedingly irreverent comedian, you've got to see where that point of view fits or produces the most funny. View quote
Jim Gaffigan
I'm a comedian, which is the opposite of a lifestyle that equips you to be a parent. View quote
Jim Gaffigan
He's basically a romantic comedian. View quote
Timothy Leary
I don't perceive my role as a newsman at all. I'm a comedian from stem to stern. View quote
Stephen Colbert
The pitch for the show, the real pitch, when Larry and I went to NBC in 1988, was we want to show how a comedian gets his material. The show about nothing was just a joke in an episode many years later. View quote
Jerry Seinfeld
The greatest thing about being a comedian is knowing other comedians. And you get to talk to them. Its the most fun. View quote
Jerry Seinfeld
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. View quote
Jerry Seinfeld
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)
When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be a professional soccer player and a comedian in off season. View quote
Will Ferrell
I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian. View quote
Chris Tucker
I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up. View quote
Jenny McCarthy
Ego is hilarious - especially the vanity of a comedian. As soon as you see one start worrying about how cool he is or about how many stadiums he can fill, he stops being funny. View quote
Ricky Gervais