Quotes About Creativity

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

You know, a comedian's comedian is just that - it's a guy who's original and funny and can make comics laugh.

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.

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

You can tell a lot about a person by what comedians they like.

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 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.

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

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

Most comedies are really hard to write, or to watch, because you kind of generally know what's coming.

I think I would do a much better job if I had a chance to do things that were edgier than I get to do in comedies.

I would be very, very bored doing light little comedies for my entire career.

Sometimes I look at music as like movies. And so I feel like you can have your comedies, and you can have your dramas, and you can have your romances or whatever.

I won't ever stop working in comedy films because all the comedies that I've worked in are different from each other.

I think there should be comedy in everything; it doesn't matter what you're doing.

You can't always go by the book, even in comedy.

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

I think that art, and making music or comedy, is a way of positing yourself on the map and then trying to find other people out there with you.

Good comedy doesn't have to be a comedy idea.