Adam Conover Quotes

I don't claim to have all the answers; after all, I'm just a comedian who reads a lot.

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• The comedian can put the punchline out there, but it's the audience that receives it - and has to get it.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Audience
  • Comedian
  • Out

• People are going to label you anyway, but the one that bugs me the most is when they say, 'One of the funniest female comedians.' There's s no 'funniest male comedians.' You're either a funny comedian, or you're not!

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Funny
  • Comedian

• I've been a comedian, hosted travel shows, explored world religions, started improv troupes, given keynote speeches at conferences around the country, and had a milk shake named after me called the Handicappuccino.

  

  Zach Anner
  • World
  • Country
  • Travel

• I always wanted to be a stand-up comedian, even as a kid. Me and my dad would watch 'Evening at the Improv' on A&E.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Dad
  • Always
  • Kid

• I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Guy
  • Actors
  • Excited

• Once you become a comedian, you accept that people are just going to yell stuff at you.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • People
  • Stuff
  • Comedian

• A comedian is not funny unless he is taking his demons out for a walk.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Comedian

• I've already produced one hour specials for other comedians and I have a TV show called Stand Up Revolution where I showcase new talent and so I'd like to continue to do stuff like that and help out the next guy.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Up
  • Help
  • Guy

• Comedians on the stage are invariably suicidal when they get home.

  

  Elsa Lanchester
  • Home
  • Comedian
  • Suicidal

• I don't have any delusions. I'm not a novelist - I'm a comedian who writes. I love doing the stand-up and the touring and the albums and all that, but it's pretty amazing to go into a library and see your book there.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Library

• I believe that comedians do what they do, and then they get credit or criticism for doing it. There's nothing planned about this.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Believe
  • Criticism
  • Comedian

• 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
  • Life
  • Jump
  • Rhythm

• Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is blue-collar comedian George Lopez, who received a kidney from his wife.

  

  Virginia Postrel
  • Problem
  • Wife
  • Poor

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

  

  William Shatner
  • Directors
  • Comedian
  • Performers

• I think a lot of actors, comedians, musicians, artists are drawn to this world, because you're allowed to excavate whatever it is that you're struggling with, and hopefully turn it into art.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Artist

• I'm a total one-hour drama addict. I think when you're a comedian, you tend towards dramas because that's the less stressful thing to watch.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Thinking
  • Drama
  • Comedian

• Canadian comedians are generally more well-rounded... They have to do a lot more. In order to have a career in this country, you have to do everything. And in the States you can narrow-cast, you can be just a sitcom performer or a stand-up comedian or a sketch performer.

  

  Scott Thompson
  • Country
  • Order
  • Careers

• Those who say that Serena isn't serious about tennis; she wants to go Hollywood. That's true, about Hollywood. I would love to get a lot of acting gigs. But you wouldn't believe the stuff I've turned down because of my tournament schedule...I would do well beside (comedian) Chris Tucker.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Believe
  • Serious
  • Acting

• If one learns from others, but does not think, one will be bewildered. If, on the other hand, one thinks but does not learn from others, one will be in peril.

  

  Confucius
  • Think
  • Learns
  • Bewildered

• To tear ourselves away from the everyday, from habit, from mental laziness which hides from us the strangeness of reality, we must receive something like a real bludgeon blow.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Real
  • Reality
  • Blow

• It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already.

  

  Sofia Coppola
  • Trying
  • Ends
  • Seems

• Parents and children cannot be to each other, as husbands with wives and wives with husbands. Nature has separated them by an almost impassable barrier of time; the mind and the heart are in quite a different state at fifteen and forty.

  

  Sara Coleridge
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Husbands

• I don't claim to have all the answers; after all, I'm just a comedian who reads a lot.

  

  Adam Conover
  • Comedian
  • Reads