Quotes on Comedian

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn't have that kind of personality, and it's a terrifying thing to say.

A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round good fellow.

I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.

Comedians are really writers who don't_x000D_ have pens and pencils about them, but_x000D_ they riff.

Every person you look at, you can see the universe in their eyes, if you're really looking

Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that who cares?... He's a mile away and you've got his shoes!

I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me.

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

In the most basic terms it was about how when we experience art without critical awareness we consent to the ideas being promoted, either intentionally or unintentionally, by the filmmaker. For instance, if you watch a racist comedian and laugh at his jokes, you are consenting to the prejudices inherent within them. Similarly, if you watch a movie which perpetuates conventional ideas about race, gender, etc., you are consenting to them and not affecting change in any way.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.

But nowadays everybody's a comedian, even the weather girls and continuity announcers. We laugh at everything. Not intelligently anymore, not with sudden shock, astonishment, or revelation, just relentlessly and meaninglessly. No more rain showers in the desert, just mud and drizzle everywhere, occasionally illuminated by the flash of paparazzi.

A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.

Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.

Life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.

Well, what do you expect? The Comedian is dead.