Quotes on Comedians

I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them.

Author: Shelley Berman

My favorite comedians were Jimmy Durante, George Burns, senior citizens.

Author: Joseph Bologna

That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.

Author: Dana Carvey

You shouldn't listen to us at all if you're looking for information. We don't take ourselves seriously on any level; we're just comedians.

Author: Stephen Colbert

Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians.

Author: Paula Danziger

I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction.

Author: Bobby Darin

Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.

Author: Adrian Edmondson

I was up until all hours of the night, listening to stories, meeting great old comedians.

Author: Joely Fisher

I feel I'm as qualified for office as any of the other comedians who are running.

Author: Grace Hansen

The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry.

Author: Martin Landau

It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing.

Author: Harvey Pekar

But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.

Author: Parker Posey

Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.

Author: Carl Reiner

Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.

Author: Alan Rudolph

My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out.

Author: Leigh Steinberg

I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe Levine said no, I don't want any comedians in this.

Author: Gene Wilder