Quotes About Performance

I don't do drama. I'm a comedian.

I'm not a comedian, but I do make people laugh. I'm good at it.

I was half Catskills comedian, half 1800s matron.

Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.

I'm a physical comedian first - and I'm a woman before that.

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 love comedy, but I did always consider myself a dramatic comedian.

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

If people leave the house wanting to see a comedian, they want to see someone speak out for themselves and share true stories from their life.

People tend to feel that if you're a comedian, you can't act.

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

I am not a comedian, I am an actor.

Probably one of the reasons I became a comedian is that you get a chance to control when people laugh at you.

I'm not a comedian who wants to spend far too long on stage.

A good comedian has to be a fine actor all around.

There's a fear when you're a comedian of just being hectoring, so you do try to fight against that.

If the show is going really well and the comedian is still annoyed with the audience, chances are he's a Boston comic. That's the beauty of Boston comics.

A Canadian comedian once told me that when you first go out there to imagine that you're actually just going back out for the encore, that all the clapping is because they've already seen you do your thing and they want to see more. You can train your mind to do anything.

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

The job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but a lot of my interests are in politics so I'm going to use that.

It doesn't matter if I'm playing a lead role or that of a comedian; I want my audience to have entertainment worth their money.

I'm not the sort of comedian who wants to make audiences think about politics. I'm not clever in that way.

I think of myself as a light comedian.

I'm not a natural comedian.