Quotes About Performance

I love pure joke-tellers, but if I go to see a comedian for a full show, I want to feel I know them more than when I came through the door.

If in the first 30 seconds, a comedian cannot bring a smile to your face, he is not an entertainer.

For me personally, being a comedian is having funny ideas and saying them: it's not just saying them. I need the complete process.

I am a comedian. I do feel I have to put my experience on a public stage. As an artist, that's what I do. Even though that sounds poncey.

I didn't want to be a comedian. I was just funny. I jumped on stage and found out I was good at it.

A lot of comedians are selfish.

Most actors can't write. Most writers can't act. Most comedians can't act. I can do all three, so why wouldn't I do that?

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

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

With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.

Here's what I'm afraid of. I know a lot of comedians, friends of mine, who just got into the 'Doesn't matter what I say. It doesn't matter. They're just gonna laugh anyway.'

I like seeing comedians do stuff that I could never do.

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

I'm actually a big fan of Kathy Griffin because I think she's really funny. I think she's really self-deprecating, which is something I like to see in a comedian. I think those are really the best comedians: people who can make fun of themselves.

It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.

There should be comedians who perform only for robots - I'm saying human comedians that only perform for robots.

I don't consider myself a comedian, but you work with some comedians, and sometimes these guys are incredible on their feet - it's just amazing - and that's not what I do. But it's always fun, and I don't really care as long as the character is interesting.

Stand-up comedians have a very important relationship to Twitter. For them, it's a place to try out material.

Comedians are on the road so much that when they're just getting to act and sit in one place, they're really grateful and just ready.

With most specials, even the best comedians will tell you they could have cut 15 or 20 minutes out of it.

Like most comedians, I have crippling low self-esteem, so I always think that what I've just done is rubbish.

Either you're a political comedian or you're a stand-up. Just talking about politics isn't enough. People who talk about airplane food, you don't call them airplane comedians.

I really fancied myself a comedic actress.

When you're a comedic actor and you're used to just getting laughs, it's kind of scary to go serious, even for a second.