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

• The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Simple
  • Sound
  • Realizing

• My children haven't read 'Winter Journal'. They have read some of my work, but I really don't foist it on them. I want them to be free to discover it in their own good time. I think reading an intimate memoir by your father - or an intimate autobiographical work, whatever we want to call this thing - you have to come at it at the right moment, so I'm certainly not foisting it upon them.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Father

• 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

• Riches are the pettiest and least worthy gifts which God can give a man. What are they to God's Word, to bodily gifts, such as beauty and health; or to the gifts of the mind, such as understanding, skill, wisdom! Yet men toil for them day and night, and take no rest. Therefore God commonly gives riches to foolish people to whom he gives nothing else.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Night
  • Health

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

  

  Adam Conover
  • Comedian
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