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Because you make me laugh don't make you a comic. A comedian is a person who, that's how they make their living.

Before doing my first open mic, I was sitting in the back watching all these comedians banter back and forth and fire jokes and up each other, and I thought, This is where I wanna be.

Being a comedian, you're under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform - to deal with pressure without stress.

Being a comedian is like being a con man. You have to make 'em like you before you can fool 'em.

Being a comedian is an incredible thing, but it can be scary sometimes.

Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

Being a TV comedian, actor, writer, columnist, and all that is quite helpful to me in acquiring wide varieties of knowledge, which is crucial for filmmaking.

Being a rapper is about being cool, but being a comedian, you're not supposed to be the coolest guy.

Being a teenager and figuring out who you are is hard enough without someone attacking you.

Being comedian outside of performing, you're someone who's analyzing life, and thinking about it, and observing so much. In my opinion, it can make you feel sort of on the outside looking in.

Bombing teaches you how badly you want to become a comedian. Because unless it's a burning desire, you'll quit when the consistent bombing becomes too much to take.

Branne's [Pavlovic] parents wanted him to become a taxi driver, but he became a stand-up comedian instead. So they died of shame.

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.

But if applause throws off your timing, then you're not the kind of comedian I would like to see. All you have to do is stand there and take it.

By elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

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.

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

But I will say that most comedians are the saddest people I know. That is the biggest paradox to me.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.