Quotes About Success

I spent 25 years as a stand-up comedian.

You can succeed as a terrible director, but try doing that with stand-up: try being a terrible comedian and getting up on stage. The funny will win out very, very quickly.

I worked as a comedian for 23 years, 51 weeks a year.

In reality, as a comedian, you're successful because you're funny, and you should be able to be funny about anything.

A comedian's job itself is tough. But I have been lucky to have made people laugh.

An academic is what I would have been if I hadn't been successful as a comedian. I've never had a proper job.

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

You know the quickest way to get comedians to hate you? Do Letterman at age 24.

It's funny how comedy is, you look at people like French and Saunders, when they started out they were very alternative. A lot of those alternative comedians have ended up being mainstream, they know that longevity is about being mainstream.

When I started auditioning, I'd take any audition I could get. The more dramatic ones didn't go as well as the comedic.

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.

Mohanlal and I have done nearly 40 films together, many of them comedies.

Comedy has been so good to me.

So many comedy shows came and went but it was 'The Kapil Sharma' Show that excelled.

I'm probably one of the few authors in this country who could very comfortably live off my writing.

I'm fighting because I want to be the best and I want to beat the best and I want to make a name for myself. I'm not fighting because I want to live comfortably for the rest of my life.

I'm loving life, making money doing what I love to do, making good money and living comfortably. I drive a corvette and live in L.A., baby!

If I wasn't a comic or TV star, I really wanted to be a photojournalist. That was my other dream job.

The comic book world is a tough business.

I'm never one to care too much if my work becomes adapted; I make comic books.

When I first started doing comedy, I was 42 years old, and I was the brother of one of the most celebrated comics in history who made his name in the game 20 years earlier.

Comics don't like to see other comics do well.

The most successful comics are always the hardest-working ones.

Because I was in the business of translating the 'X-Men' from the very successful comics, and taking the most popular book of the 20th century in 'The Lord of the Rings,' and making it into three movies, I hope people realize I wouldn't get involved in anything I didn't think was really going to be worth their while.