Famous Quotes & Sayings

Keke Palmer

Comedians like to see people smile. With acting, I love giving people a feeling, an emotion. I like to give people a feeling. When they come away from my scene, I want them to think.

Greg Behrendt

I was always funny, but I wasn't a great musician, and I wanted to be a musician way more than I wanted to be a comic. I just didn't think comedians were cool when I was a kid.

Trevor Noah

The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want to make people laugh and make them think about socially relevant issues, but comedy, by the very nature of the word, is to make people laugh. If people aren't laughing, it's not comedy. It's as simple as that.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

It's famous that comedians have a very dark personal state of mind. I think, in my case, it's the same. The only way to get deep is to have a balance, or a counterbalance.

Stephen Hess

Had this been handled expeditiously, quickly, it might have been a story on the style page, or limited to the late night comedians and the cartoonists. There's simply no question they fumbled this one.

David Banner

He looked better than he ever looked to me. But he's the one who decides whether he can look at himself in the daytime. The one thing you have to understand about comedians is, the more they make people smile, the more pain that they usually feel inside.

Molly Shannon

I'm no way one of those comedians who want to do drama. I really do love comedies. I hope to go back to it.

Josh Thomas

I like seeing comedians do stuff that I could never do.

Mike Birbiglia

I'm a comedian, and the other comedians are played by comedians, the same way that in 'Once' there are the musicians that hang out together.

Shane Filan

Kevin Spacey was pretty cool - very funny. And meeting Pope John Paul II was special.

Brian Lucas

Kids today expect their toys to be functional. They don't want a toy laptop, they want something that actually works and does cool things.

Graham Elliot

I think that for me, growing up, my dad was in the Navy; we went all over the world. I love things the weirder the better. The idea I could eat things like snails or frogs legs or things like that was mind-blowingly cool.

Graham Elliot

I'm a traditionalist, so for me, black coffee is cool.

Greg Behrendt

Social media is a really cool way to tell your story to people who are interested in hearing it. It's not getting put through the filter of a television executive who's decided you're too old to justify the expenditure.

Suki Waterhouse

Photographing friends means that there's a spontaneity to the images. I have a lot of love for my friends and family, and I love taking cool pictures of them.

Jimmy Kimmel

What would be cool is if you avenged a rapper,

Mike McCue

Having run Tellme before, one of the things I learned about running a big network is it's one thing to have some people not be able to get on the way they want to get on, but as long as people who are on the network are having a good experience, you're totally cool.

Rita Ora

Gwen Stefani's style and flow I just love. She is so cool to me!

David Pierce

Kelsey Grammer is wickedly funny. He's like an 8-year-old child. He's always doing pranks, and we have a great time.

Rob McKittrick

He is that guy in the movie. He is that funny guy who can get in your grill, and be funny about it. He's a lot more interesting in person than you usually see on the screen.

Trevor Noah

Most of my show is true; like, 90% of everything I say on stage is true. I just have to find the way to make it funny - that's the difficult thing.

Taylor Hawkins

Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.

Shaquille O'Neal

Every time I do something silly, it comes off really funny because it's natural.

Sophie Wu

When you are 15, everything is such high stakes, even tiny things. I think because of that, it is funny but sad at the same time.

Dan Castellaneta

It's the cushiest job, but some lines are so funny that I crack up.

Angie Harmon

He's a great gentleman, and he's very funny. My girlfriends' husbands try to be like Jason now.

Mark O'Meara

Golf is a funny game and today seemed to go my way, so it was nice to get off to a good start.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

Brian Smith

Kieron has played some great rugby for us this season.

Larry Martin

Knoxville is a great place to live. It's a great place to raise kids.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Derek Bailey

I'd like trios and quartets actually, but I like duos because a lot of musicians who I like playing with like playing duos.

Trey Anastasio

When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.

Trey Parker

I like to fancy myself more of a musician than anything else.

Wayne Shorter

If all you have is music, then you don't have music

Virgil Thomson

Musicians own music because music owns them.

Sade Adu

I always see myself as much more of a musician than a celebrity.

Nick Hornby

In other words, it's too tough to be a musician at the moment.

Robert Moog

I'm an engineer, ... I see myself as a toolmaker, and the musicians are my customers. They use the tools.

Jamie Cullum

I never sought out a record deal. It caught me with my pants down. I was just a musician doing my thing, I didn't even send my records out.