Quotes About Identity

I'm a comedian who got into movies, so I don't really think of myself as an actor.

I was half Catskills comedian, half 1800s matron.

Once people enjoy what I do, I don't mind if they call me a magician or an illusionist or a hypnotist, entertainer, comedian, whatever people want to call me. I'm comfortable with all of the above, so I don't really mind at all what people want to call me.

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

I did say to myself one day, 'I'd love to be a Jewish comedian,' but that's my only memory with any connection to show business.

I never thought I was going to be a comedian.

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

I am not a comedian, I am an actor.

I don't really consider myself an actor, and I don't know if I'm a comedian.

I am not a comedian.

If I am known as a comedian or I get to be known as one, it is because of one of two reasons - either you have not tried or you have accepted it.

I love comedy but I am Rajpal Yadav. I am not a comedian.

The tags in this business don't leave you... When I was a VJ, they called me VJ-turned-actor, then I turned into a comedian, and now I am a serious actor.

I would loved to be called an actor, and not comedian.

I didn't want to be a comedian.

One thing I hate in ethnic comedy is giving the audience the opportunity to laugh in a racist way at a thing. A lot of times dwarf comedians will do that, Arab comics, and gay comics will do it; everyone is laughing, but they're not laughing at the joke, they're laughing at this crazy character.

I think comedians see themselves as people among people.

You don't get white comedians being asked to talk about their race in their shows. I should be given the same agency to talk about what I want to talk about.

When something really affects you, it's hard to find the humor in it sometimes. There's are a lot of reasons why there are so many white male comedians, but I think part of it is that they are able to joke about a lot of things because a lot of things don't affect them personally.

I really fancied myself a comedic actress.

People haven't seen me in a comedic setting, but that's who I really am.

The apartheid people were actors, and they had to act out their part in their beliefs every day. That's why we always saw them as being comedic.

I have comedic things in my stuff, but I don't consider myself a comedian. I'm just a YouTuber, I guess just a personality.

I've been doing comedies but I'm not a comedian.