Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Saget

The film, as crazy as it is, is a love letter to comedians and comedy and all the different ways they improv around something,

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.

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!

John Leguizamo

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

Jimmy Durante

Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.

Jimmy Carr

All comedians are a bit attention-seeking and I'm no different. Anyone with the audacity to want to be listened to for an hour and a half must be.

George Lindsey

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

Trevor Noah

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

Uma Thurman

I love comedy. I don't approach it any different. I'm not a comedian. I'm not a stand-up. I just do it like a part and personally, I love to watch comedies. If you don't get to do what you like to watch you get frustrated.

Rob Brydon

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

Rob Corddry

I always fancied myself more of an actor than a comedian before I realized that only assholes make that kind of distinction.

Sacha Baron Cohen

Jews have a tendency to become comedians.

Rowan Atkinson

I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.

Robyn Hitchcock

I could never be a professional comedian, 'cause you have to keep telling the same jokes. For me, they're like word solos.

Steve Harvey

Comedians walk out, get a feel for the crowd. If it's not going good, we change directions. If we got to drag your momma into this thing, we will. Whatever we got to do.

Steve Martin

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

Steve Buscemi

My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom.

Katy Perry

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

Taylor Momsen

I love comedy. If I could be a comedian - well, I probably would not take that job because it seems really hard, but I wish I could be.

Topher Grace

I'm not a comedian, but I love the comedians who know when to get off the stage.

Will Rogers

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

W. C. Fields

The funniest thing a comedian can do is not do it.

W. C. Fields

Thou shalt not steal-only from other comedians.

Woody Allen

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

William Shatner

I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.

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.

Wendy Liebman

I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled.