Comedian Quotes - Page 27

• People tell me I'm a comedian, but I don't approach acting from that perspective. I do know that everything in life has to do with your timing and perception. You have to be comfortable with the rhythm that you're in. You can't just jump into a fast rhythm if yours is slow. You might have to pick up the pace but in your own particular way. It has to do with personality, too.

  Mike Tyson

  People, Perspective, Personality

  Source: aalbc.com

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• There are a lot of sources of information out there, so why don't you curate for yourself a list, like a real timeline of information, like the New York Times, or JetBlue, or your friends, or this comedian, or this guy who pretends to be a cat, or whatever it is, whatever entertains you, whatever you find useful.

  Biz Stone

  New York, Real, Cat

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Sometimes you watch comedians and feel like they're jerking off in front of you, but they want you to see how big it is.

  Jenny Slate

  Watches, Want, Sometimes

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I love it when artists talk about process! I love the movie Comedian.

  Rachel Zucker

  Artist, Process

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's that great Bill Hicks line - the comedian - where he says, "Are you proud to be an American?" "I don't know. It's just where my parents had sex."

  Josh Radnor

  Sex, Parent, Lines

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I don't pretend to understand him, but I can enjoy him as a poet and comedian. I liked the idea of the eternal return. Sometimes I think that being on tour year after year is an eternal return; you play a certain club in Copenhagen and then ten years later you are back again, traveling the same roads year after year.

  Dean Wareham

  Thinking, Years, Play

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I also could see myself as a stand-up comedian, a fashion designer (for people of all sizes), a hairdresser, an earnest and eventually burnt-out politician, or the owner of a small bistro. But I fear that, without poetry, I would have simply been going through the motions.

  Denise Duhamel

  Fashion, People, Size

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One of the first TV shows that I did was this prank show. And we did a prank where we took a Michael Jackson impersonator and I played his publisher.I was just really good at my job.We were just about to go onto the field to throw out the first pitch just two weeks after 9\11. It was a huge security breach, and we made a lot of cops look really dumb. Producers of the show thought it would be really funny and I didn't think about it because I was a young dumb comedian. So I got arrested and went to jail in the Bronx, and now I can never go back to Yankee Stadium.

  Rob Huebel

  Jobs, Thinking, Jail

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• eah, you don't get a lot of meatheads doing improvised theater to begin with, and that's always been my thing. I talk about the nerd/meathead dichotomy on my podcast a lot, but there was a time when I was doing UCB full-time and playing men's league rugby in New York City, and I was like the funniest, artsiest rugby player, and the bro-iest improv comedian. I've always managed to sort of be in both sides.

  Jon Gabrus

  New York, Player, Men

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I try not to limit myself. The actors that inspire me are the comedians and the people able to shape-shift into different roles and into different media. That ensures your longevity as an artist and prevents you from getting bored with yourself and, hopefully, prevents people from getting bored with you.

  Gugu Mbatha-Raw

  Artist, Media, People

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I do what I do because there's nothing else for me to do. This is what I'm supposed to be doing. It is in my soul to spread love and laughter. Even if I wasn't an actress or a comedian, I would be spreading love and laughter [with] whatever I did.

  Kim Coles

  Laughter, Soul, Spreading Love

  Interview with Reina Shay Broussard, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I've been insane for a long time. An ex-girlfriend of mine once asked, "Is it true that all comedians are depressed?," and I said, "Every one I know is."

  Jason Gann

  Girlfriend, Long, Insane

  Source: collider.com

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• And as Craig Brown - he's an English humorist, not a comedian but he's just a writer and humorist - I'm quite a fan of. I heard him talking in a rather similar way on the radio. He said I'm the sort of person - I can't remember exactly what he said, but it was rather interesting - he said I'm the sort of person that can be reduced to tears in an empty church and feel like I'm the CEO of the Devil's organization in a full one, and I tend to feel like that as well. I love empty churches and going into them looking around, but I'm not a churchgoer at all.

  Nick Lowe

  Talking, Organization, Interesting

  "Nick Lowe Brings His 'Quality Holiday Revue' To America". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 22, 2014.

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• Well, human rights defenders, freedom of speech advocates, lawyers that we spoke to said this is really an expansion. After the military ouster of Egypt's unpopular, but elected Islamist president in 2013, we saw political opponents being arrested by the thousands, really. Then we saw a popular comedian go off the air out of fear of retribution.

  Leila Fadel

  Military, Rights, Air

  "Egypt Expands Crackdown On Freedom Of Expression, Advocates Say". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 30, 2015.

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• Who's famous anymore? No one. There are these comedians that are famous in a weird way. There are comedians, like Anjelah Johnson and Russell Peters, [who] are unbelievably famous, but in a way they're selling out 1,000-person stadiums.

  Moshe Kasher

  Way, Selling, Stadiums

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

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• There's so many variables in comedy. Comedy is not this thing that's a performance like a play. It's really an interaction with every single person in the room. And if there's a weirdness in the room for any people, be it something the comedians did at the top of the set or be it the mixture of the people isn't right, something can go awry. So it's really great to see you proven wrong about someone.

  B. J. Porter

  Play, People, Rooms

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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• I started as a stand-up comedian. I wanted to be Carol Burnett when I was growing up.

  Stephanie Miller

  Growing Up, Carols, Wanted

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. August 22, 2006.

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• 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

  Successful, Thinking, Doe

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I'm very much a stand-up comedian in my heart. That's really what I do. Now I'm trying to incorporate all of the different elements of my work as a performer, and use it as a stand-up comedian.

  Margaret Cho

  Heart, Trying, Different

  "Sing out, sister". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. February 25, 2016.

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• We're shaking up a format, which I think is always a good thing. The thing about [2011 Oscar hosts] James [Franco] and Anne [Hathaway] is, they've both hosted Saturday Night Live, and they both did a good job at it. So they are accustomed to working with short rehearsal time, and live, lots of pressure, rewrites, things like that. They can make quick changes, which is very advantageous, and they're skilled comedians.

  Bruce Vilanch

  Jobs, Night, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Authenticity seems like sort of a joke. Actually I believe it was the late comedian George Burns who said, "if you can fake sincerity, you've got it made." People cannot be invariant across situations and roles and, moreover, leaders need to be true not to themselves, but to what others want, need, and expect from them.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Believe, People, Leader

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I actually was a writer who had the ability to perform his own work as opposed to a comedian who wrote his own material. So that really made me happy and changed my whole perspective.

  George Carlin

  Perspective, Made, Changed

  "Stand-up comic - Interview". The Progressive Vol. 65 Nbr.7, July 2001.

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• I set out to become a comedian, and I said in order to do that the first thing I'll do is become a disc jockey and know my pop music. I like it, my voice is good, and I can start out getting confidence without an audience in front of me.

  George Carlin

  Order, Voice, Jockeys

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• When you start in the childhood period, when you begin to form a comic sense, it was the radio comedians - from the last days of radio and the first days of television. And Spike Jones. And the Marx Brothers. They represented anarchy. They took things that were nice and decent and proper, and they tore them to shreds. That attracted me.

  George Carlin

  Brother, Nice, Childhood

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• Comedians usually are rooting for the underdog. I mean to take a shot at an underdog I think is really stupid and low and not funny.

  Joy Behar

  Stupid, Mean, Thinking

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