Comedian Quotes
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Comedians don`t get Oscars, so I gave up on that a long time ago. And I can`t really speak about the Oscar-worthiness of my own performance.
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When I told my friends I was going to be a comedian, they laughed at me.
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I just respected comedians whether they were or they weren't, from, you know, new or old.
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I believe I am God's favorite comedian. I think he is a really big comedy writer. He writes scripts. And I just follow along.
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I think the more the actor lets you know what he thinks of the character, the less the audience cares - like a comedian who laughs at his own jokes.
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I'm not a comedian, but I love the comedians who know when to get off the stage.
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In 1987, I was in Edinburgh doing my first one-man show. I took part in a kickabout with some fellow comedians and tripped over my trousers and heard this cracking sound in my leg. A couple of days later I went into a coma and was diagnosed with a pulmonary embolism.
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I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I used to want to be a writer. I invalidated myself; it’s a mistake for me. ... There’s just a lot of stuff that really moves me, and I don’t know how to express it, and I just want to try to do the best I can and surround myself with good people who don’t invalidate me.
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Most comedians come from a dark past and have a lot of sadness.
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A lot of comedians today have misunderstood the concept of a subversive comedian. If you really want to be subversive, you have to please and offend in equal amounts.
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I like the comedians that go into detail and tell longer stories.
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As a comedian, I'm like one of those on-the-scene reporters. I will actually go and try to find disasters so I can write jokes as the disasters unfold.
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Physics is very muddled again at the moment; it is much too hard for me anyway, and I wish I were a movie comedian or something like that and had never heard anything about physics!
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I guess ultimately a lot of comedians just wanna be taken seriously.
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I've wanted to be a comedian since I was a kid, and my parents were very supportive of that.
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Awards mean nothing to comedians. What matters is the audience, how you're doing - artistically, for the most part - at that moment.
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I believe that comedians do what they do, and then they get credit or criticism for doing it. There's nothing planned about this.
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Even when you hear about a comedian getting married, among comedians, we're always kind of like, what are they doing?
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If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.
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Outsiders develop humor as a defense; why do you think most comedians are gay or Jewish?
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I've been doing comedies but I'm not a comedian.
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I wasn't expecting to really draw in respected comedians but it's going to happen along the way and I'm truly honored by that.
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Freedom of speech does not mean that you have to agree with everything that a comedian says, but that comedian should have the freedom to be able to try to make that funny. It's the attempt that I'm trying to defend so hard, no necessarily the execution.
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I'm honored that other comedians like what I do. That means the world to me. But at the same time when I'm on stage I'm not just trying to make the comedians laugh - I'm also trying to make the audience laugh. I want to make everybody laugh.
