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Quotes About Expression

I'm a physical comedian, and I don't get to show it off very often.
~ Elizabeth Banks
I was half Catskills comedian, half 1800s matron.
~ Paula Pell
Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
~ Vicki Lawrence
I'm a physical comedian first - and I'm a woman before that.
~ Kate McKinnon
If people leave the house wanting to see a comedian, they want to see someone speak out for themselves and share true stories from their life.
~ James Acaster
I don't really consider myself an actor, and I don't know if I'm a comedian.
~ Tom Green
I'm not really a comedian, innit; I just naturally say things which people class as funny.
~ Big Narstie
You can't just expect anyone to turn comedian because it's something that should come naturally, but not when forced on someone.
~ M. S. Narayana
I'm not the sort of comedian who wants to make audiences think about politics. I'm not clever in that way.
~ Peter Kay
I love comedy but I am Rajpal Yadav. I am not a comedian.
~ Rajpal Yadav
For me personally, being a comedian is having funny ideas and saying them: it's not just saying them. I need the complete process.
~ Frank Skinner
I am a funny as well as an emotional person. The comedian inside me cries at times while watching a movie.
~ Bharti Singh
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.
~ David Baddiel
I know a lot of sad people who aren't comedians.
~ Gene Wilder
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?
~ Charlie Murphy
Comedians have a huge carte blanche and the ability to get away with saying a lot of things.
~ Marilyn Manson
It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.
~ Larry Wilmore
Comedians are not well people. Well people are not drawn to creating.
~ Julian Barratt
I don't like any female comedians.
~ Jerry Lewis
Stand-up comedians have a very important relationship to Twitter. For them, it's a place to try out material.
~ Sheila Heti
People are born comedians.
~ Johnny Lever
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.
~ Lolly Adefope
People haven't seen me in a comedic setting, but that's who I really am.
~ Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
If I'm playing a bad guy, and I'm playing him evilly - I'm making him evil; I'm being evil because I want the audience to understand that he's bad - or if I have a line that's funny, I do it in a comedic way, that, to me, is a lie. It's dead when I watch it.
~ Richard Jenkins