Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Colbert

I don't perceive my role as a newsman at all. I'm a comedian from stem to stern. You can cut me open and count the rings of jokes.

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.

Rob Brydon

If you're a comedian, you are looking for material in daily life.

Will Ferrell

It would be great to be able to follow in the footsteps of Bill Murray. I really respect his ability as a comedian, obviously, but even more so as an actor.

Paul Rudd

I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes.

Kevin Nealon

As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit.

Kingsley Amis

It's a letdown if the comedian doesn't finally actually really sit on his hat.

Kid Cudi

I'm a goofball and a comedian

Margaret Cho

I became a comedian because I didn't want to be bullied anymore. Onstage I was safe.

Shelley Berman

Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience.

Shelley Berman

I was an actor before becoming a comedian.

Shelley Berman

As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian.

Larry David

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

Tatiana Maslany

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.

Pauly Shore

You have to go away to come back. That's just normal. That's with bands, actors, comedians, everything.

Peter Sarsgaard

If I want to keep working as an actor, I'm going to become a comedian who does fart jokes.

Kevin Hart

Having other comedians complimenting my work is the biggest accolade that I can get.

Katy Perry

Using blasphemy as entertainment is as cheap as a comedian telling a fart joke.

Sean William Scott

I've been doing comedies but I'm not a comedian.

Liam Neeson

I'm trying to be a comedian, you know?

Lenny Bruce

I'm not a comedian. I'm Lenny Bruce.

Lenny Bruce

Every group needs a comedian. A comic who is politically incorrect at the Berkeley campus might slay them at a Klan rally.

Joy Behar

You know, I'm a comedian the same as Bill Maher and Jon Stewart. We all came up the same way. The three of us have interest in politics; I call us fundits, we're fundits! We're not pundits!

George Lindsey

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

Jonah Hill

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

Jon Stewart

Hopefully the only things off-limits are crummy jokes, but being a standup comedian, I know that's not always the case... You know it when you have to take a shower afterward.

Jon Stewart

As a comedian, as a person, as a citizen, as a mammal - in all of those areas, I am looking forward to the end of the Bush administration with every fiber of my being.

Josh Gad

I feel like Jim Carrey is probably the closest thing to a true physical comedian that we have working today.

Joe Rogan

I don't really like actors. Actors are like terrible comedians with no punch lines. It's all about them. They talk about themselves all the time. They bore the sh - t out of you.

John Hodgman

This is something that the nimblest standup comedians learn, over time, to handle gracefully. They'll go between prepared material, then they'll respond to what's happening in the room and weave it back into the prepared material and so on.

John Oliver

It really helps a comedian to be an outsider.

Jimmy Wales

Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.

Elayne Boosler

There are many comedians who are afraid to work outside the coasts and the casinos because they're afraid they'll bomb.