I never thought I'd be a comedian. But, growing up, I simply loved watching comedy. The '80s was huge for comedy in the US. Eddie Murphy blew me away with his film Delirious.
Being comedian outside of performing, you're someone who's analyzing life, and thinking about it, and observing so much. In my opinion, it can make you feel sort of on the outside looking in.
I may sound like a megalomaniac, but I feel like I'm equipped to become a great, memorable comedian, if I keep working my ass off and staying at the pace I'm at, and I feel a responsibility to do that because of the women who have done it before me, and the ones who need to do it after me.
While painting I noticed a piece of madras cloth on the floor. As usual, my mind started working overtime and a pair of scissors and a small amount of glue later. . . I created THE COMEDIAN. Everybody loved the uniqueness of the painting. It was indeed a hit.
The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.
I'm trying to do what Eddie Murphy did for his generation. You have to show people, 'I'm different. I'm not just a comedian. ' I'm trying to become a rock star.
I became a comedian because I didn't want to be bullied anymore. Onstage I was safe.
I also could see myself as a stand-up comedian, a fashion designer (for people of all sizes), a hairdresser, an earnest and eventually burnt-out politician, or the owner of a small bistro. But I fear that, without poetry, I would have simply been going through the motions.
I believe that any type of education can be great, but an education about ourselves can create something wonderful. I am a comedian, but people have called me a motivational speaker. I don't really consider myself that at all.
Comedians dissect jokes all the time. Comedians are beautiful structuralists. But ultimately it's an athletic endeavor.
As comedians, we have the opportunity to convey a message that will have an effect. The best can make you laugh and cry, the way musicians and actors can.
The comedian sticks as religiously to her theme as a dancer sticks to a diet.
I don't do too many jokes about current affairs, because almost every comedian always does that.
What I say is stupid. Who takes a comedian seriously? I'm doing sophisticated knock-knock jokes.
Jewish comedians do the best Jewish jokes, and anyone else doing that, they don't have a right to, because they're not coming from that experience. I know that's a slightly heightened example, but it's the same thing. We're bumpkins, so we can make bumpkin jokes.
Many comedians - both male and female - do have an "I will never date another comedian" rule.
Even if I wasn't an actress or a comedian, I would be spreading love and laughter [with] whatever I did.
When you hear "Seinfield," no one says, "the Jewish comic. " You talk about Cedric the Entertainer, you don't say, "African American comedian Cedric the Entertainer. " Even Margaret Cho - who's like one of three Korean performers out there - no one refers to her like that. They say, "It's Margaret Cho. "
Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it's hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.
I would have liked to be a comedian in the '20s, or maybe even a comedian on the Mayflower and have a statue somewhere.