Comedian Quotes - Page 37

• Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the rest of their career.

  Chris Rock

  Careers, Comfort, Zone

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 17, 2004.

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• Bill Cosby was the first comedian I was exposed to, because he doesn't curse.

  Chris Rock

  Bills, Firsts, Curse

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• Karaoke isn't fair when you're a comedian. The whole idea is to get people laughing and enjoying themselves, and I'm a professional funny guy.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Ideas, People

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• I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.

  Rita Rudner

  Inspirational, Funny, Humor

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• The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing.

  Rita Rudner

  Dancing, Singing, Trying

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• Professional comedians, surprisingly, have a lack of humor. They're insensitive to the insanity of our times.

  Mort Sahl

  Insanity, Insensitive, Our Time

  Mort Sahl (1976). “Heartland”, New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

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• The greatest thing about being a comedian is knowing other comedians. And you get to talk to them. Its the most fun.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Fun, Knowing, Knowing Others

  "Takes One to Know One". Interview with David Steinberg, www.latimes.com. November 24, 2008.

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• 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.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Personality, Kind, Truth Is

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• I just think of myself as a comedian, really.

  Sarah Silverman

  Thinking

  Interview with Pamela Paul, www.slate.com. November 10, 2005.

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• With a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression. I look like the neighborhood bully. That doesn't elicit laughter.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Laughter, Expression, Bully

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• There is plenty of television. There are plenty of talk shows. There are plenty of comedians. But there is not plenty of worship of the true and living God.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Television, Worship, Shows

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• I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.

  Lily Tomlin

  Inspirational, Funny, Humor

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• There's something about being a comedian that means you have to not be scared of failing because failing is part of the process.

  David Walliams

  Mean, Scared, Failing

  "So, Eddie Izzard, were your marathons an attempt to trump my swims?". Interview with Eddie Izzard, www.independent.co.uk. March 23, 2012.

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• I really understood a lot more about comedy after listening to Bill Hicks, who died at 32 years old. He's probably the best comedian who ever lived. Although you can't say that because of Carlin, Cosby and Pryor.

  Ron White

  Years, Listening, Bills

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• You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Laughter, Humorous

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• 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

  Girlfriend, Wall, Thinking

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• Comedians are sociologists. We're pointing out stuff that the general public doesn't even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

  Steven Wright

  Thinking, Stuff, Slow Motion

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• 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.

  Steven Wright

  Years, People, Wanted

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• When I was on TV in the '80s, I wasn't thinking, 'There's a 10-year-old kid watching this and in 15 years, he's gonna be doing stuff that was influenced by me.' I was trying to get my five minutes together. So now that those people are comedians and they're influenced by me - it's bizarre.

  Steven Wright

  Kids, Thinking, Years

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• A stand-up comedian will never be the life of a party. Instead, he will be the guy who is standing at a corner and observing people.

  Vir Das

  Party, People, Guy

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• I'm a stand-up comedian-turned-actor-turned-vampire at night.

  Vir Das

  Night, Vampire, Actors

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• My personal favorite is Woody Allen, who is just amazing as a comedian.

  Vir Das

  Woody

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• When comedians get successful, the fans that they have aren't the fans they would hang out with. I don't have that problem.

  Chris Hardwick

  Successful, Fans, Problem

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• Having a human conversation is not something I've had any training in either as a comedian or as, you know, a human being.

  John Oliver

  Training, Conversation, Humans

  "John Oliver dishes on 'Daily Show'" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. August 13, 2013.

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• I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.

  John Oliver

  Laughing, Sound, Realizing

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