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By elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

By watching the great, old comedians I picked up a few tricks about how to do physical comedy. And whenever I could learn something, I sort of added that to my repertoire.

Canada has been a breeding ground for great comedic actors, sketch artists and stand-up comedians. We grew up with a different perspective on the world.

Catch Fire, Do Something, Get Excited by Finding Your Purpose In Life.

Certain comedians work with certain actors; like Adam Sandler worked with Jack Nicholson.

Chihuahua. There's a waste of dog food. Looks like a dog that is still far away.

Christians have always been fodder for comedians who have tended to portray them as anoraks - slightly clammy, beatifically smiley dullards with barely a personality between them.

Comedians are the most challenging people for me to shoot. Because you're not actually in the dialogue with them, they are performing. When I work with a comedian, I become their audience.

Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.

Comedians rarely have writers, and if you do it's usually a sign of laziness.

Comedians... they're different from actors. There's more ego there. They create the whole thing, I guess, so they're more precious.

Comedians want to be rock legends for a day - that sounds fun to them.

Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really well to get a good performance out of them. But, if you have a comedian on the set, you can tell them, 'Hey, you really are screwing this up,' and then they just get better.

Comedy is crowded. There are hundreds of comedians in every place in the world.

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.

Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions.

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

Comedians are the one who have to tell the emperor he has no clothes on.

Comedians dissect jokes all the time. Comedians are beautiful structuralists. But ultimately it's an athletic endeavor.

Comedians sometimes forget that there's an audience. You gotta be conscious that you're performing for other human beings.

Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the rest of their career.

Comedians walk out, get a feel for the crowd. If it's not going good, we change directions. If we got to drag your momma into this thing, we will. Whatever we got to do.

Comedians are a much rarer and far more valuable commodity than all the gold and precious stones in the world.

Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it's hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.

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.

Comedians and Feminists... are natural enemies, because stereotypically-speaking, feminists can't take a joke and... comedians can't take criticism.

Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.

Comedians are always going to be in the showbiz middle class, you're not Brad Pitt; you're never going to be Sam Rockwell or Shia LaBeouf or Leo DiCaprio. You're a comic.

Comedians are sociologists. We're pointing out stuff that the general public doesn't even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

Comedians are thinkers. The best ones are akin to philosophers, in my opinion.

Comedians don't have hits. You have to have a whole brand-new hour. You have no hits to rely on.

Comedians, such as yourself, Jon Stewart and others, are a valuable supplement, and here's why: Good journalism at its best frequently speaks truth to power. What's happened with journalists - again, I don't except myself from this criticism - in some ways we've lost our guts. We need a spine transplant. What's happened is comedians, in their own way, speak truth to power and fill that vacuum that we in journalism have too often left, particularly post 9/11.

Comedy is like a very cokey, druggy sugar. You get hits of comedy, and it's very, "More, give me more of that stuff," because serotonin is being released in the brain. So it's basically, everyone becomes serotonin junkies, and we are serotonin dealers. And that's what being a comedian is about.

Comedian makes the statement that just isn't true.

Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.

Comedians by and large are some of the most sensitive people on earth. Even if they're socially callous.

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

Comedy is a noble art. And every comedian who does anything is serving a noble purpose.

Contrary to what certain comedians have led you to believe, the national French pastime is picnicking.

Congress is furious at the Secret Service for consorting with hookers, which has traditionally been Congress's role.

Comics write to their point of view. If you're an exceedingly irreverent comedian, you've got to see where that point of view fits or produces the most funny.

Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken.

Dave Chappelle is about as gifted as it gets, as a performer and comedian. [...] It's always great to watch him work. He started around fourteen and he's in his forties now, so he's probably been doing it for close to thirty years. He's brilliant.

Down deep in His heart God is a comedian who loves to make us laugh.

Don't censor yourself to comfort their ignorance.

Disasters are funny to me. As a comedian you learn from failure, so I'm always trying to put myself in a situation that does not seem ideal for my comedy and see how it works.

Eddie Murphy is to comedians what Nicki Minaj is to Spanx.

Even if I wasn't an actress or a comedian, I would be spreading love and laughter [with] whatever I did.

Even when I lecture per se, I am a joke comedian, I can do the voices.

Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'