Quotes About Inspiration

It's interesting to talk to young comedians. I love it because it makes me go, 'Oh, that's how I can be funny.'

I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny.

Comedians are not well people. Well people are not drawn to creating.

I never was obsessed with comedians. When I was a little, little boy, I'd watch, like, George Carlin on 'Dinah Shore.'

There are a lot of great disabled comedians.

I have admiration for people who can do it well - the guys who wrote 'Cheers' and 'Frasier.' They created sort of a blissful comedic universe.

I'm a creative comedic entertainer who enjoys bringing good content to the world. I'm not Big Shaq - Shaq is his own person.

I grew up on Abdul Halim Hafez and Esmail Yassine, a great comedic actor. I think Adel Imam also changed and revolutionised the game and comedy in Egypt.

Once I got into film, I was never like, 'I want to make comedies.'

For me, I wanted to write a book about getting into comedy. That's what I wanted to write.

Working with Lucille Ball was just a master class in how to do comedy.

Comedy Bang! Bang!' has meant so much to me over the years, and has brought me so much and so many new fans.

People get comfort from music. They get joy from it and understanding from it, and most of all, the average person can't do without it in some sense.

I find booksellers comforting - they're my people.

Patrice O'Neal is the best comic I ever saw.

Everything I've done is an old Marvel comic in its' own way.

If I wasn't a comic or TV star, I really wanted to be a photojournalist.

I am a 'made' cartoonist, but I was born a comic.

There's so many good comic actors that you just take the best of and try and run with it yourself. Try and bring a little bit of yourself to it, too.

Reading the Martin Luther King story, that little comic book, set me on the path that I'm on today.

I've been a comic book fan since I was 10 years old.

There's a lot of comic book inspiration and stuff I do that people probably won't recognize. I grew up in the '70s, so there's a lot of little things, like 'Three's Company' and 'Gilligan's Island.' Those shows were the foundation of my comedy in a way.

I didn't see a lot of comic books growing up.

I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a picture.