Comedian Quotes (page 3)

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• winning
• conscience
• wins

When you battle with your conscience and lose, you win. -Henny Youngman, comedian and violinist (1906-1998) Henny Youngman

• different
• stupid
• driving

A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say “Sum!” because he could see no more. But we who lived there saw our street as a world, where everybody was quite different from everybody else. Mam-man was mad; George was stupid; Big Foot was a bully; hat was an adventurer; Popo was a philosopher; and Morgan was our comedian. V. S. Naipaul

• art
• affection
• change

In the most basic terms it was about how when we experience art without critical awareness we consent to the ideas being promoted, either intentionally or unintentionally, by the filmmaker. For instance, if you watch a racist comedian and laugh at his jokes, you are consenting to the prejudices inherent within them. Similarly, if you watch a movie which perpetuates conventional ideas about race, gender, etc., you are consenting to them and not affecting change in any way. Simon Pegg

• funny
• honesty
• thinking

If you think something's funny, go with that. Most comedians pull jokes from a place of honesty. Olivia Munn

• japanese
• ideas
• nonexistent

The idea of a Japanese comedian was not only a rarity, it was non-existent. Pat Morita

• credible
• comedians
• credibility

I don't have credibility, I'm a comedian. Dennis Miller

• enough
• trust god
• god

I'm a comedian, for God's sake. Viewers shouldn't trust me. And you know what? They're hip enough to know they shouldn't trust me. I'm just doing stand-up comedy. Dennis Miller

• good
• thinking
• viewpoint

I think having an outsider's viewpoint is interesting and good, especially for a comedian. Paul Merton

• good
• hamlet
• play

I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly. Ian Mckellen

• different
• thinking
• look

Comedy is something that I'm definitely looking to get into. I had a little taste of it and I do intend on going to classes for it because I think it's a different muscle, and it's hard to find female comedians. Ashley Greene

• funny
• being funny
• being

The pressure to being a comedian is being funny, but I've given that up, so there is no pressure whatsoever. Gilbert Gottfried

• work
• star
• hero

I'm attracted to working with comedians because they don't have that stars' idea of what a hero should be. The downside is they're always addressing the camera too much. Michel Gondry

• black
• thoughts
• red

I thought comedians had to have black on their faces or red beards. Dorothy Gish

• family
• cake
• life

I grew up in a food-obsessed Italian family, so food was always front and center in my life. I was a food obsessed person who morphed into a comedian and tried to figure out a way to make fun of my cake and eat it too. Nadia Giosia

• teacher
• probability
• ifs

I would probably be a teacher if I weren't a comedian. Brad Garrett