#comedian

I think comedians have a function in society, which is to make fun of our icons. ↗

— Julie Brown

#fun #function #i #i think #icons

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors. ↗

— Johann Georg Zimmermann

#imitations #usually

I didn't really want to be a comedian. ↗

— Allan Carr

#i #really #want

The tragedy for comedians is there's nothing more they want than to be liked. We desperately seek approval. It's almost like a personality disorder you can do as a job. ↗

— Jimmy Carr

#approval #comedians #desperately #disorder #job

I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times. ↗

— Kate Clinton

#comedians #extremely #fact #gives #happy

A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny. ↗

— Bobby Darin

#being funny #body #comedian #funny #his

Fuck it... That's really the attitude that keeps a family together, it's not "we love each other", it's just "fuck it, man. ↗

— Louis C.K.

#comedian #comedy #family #fuck-it #funny

I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#acting #being #between #comedian #comic

Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story. ↗

— Bob Newhart

#benny #bravest #comedian #doubt #ever

The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh. ↗

— Leslie Nielsen

#comedian #comedy #doing #get #going