Success The Comedian Quotes & Sayings

Conclusions are based in time. We live in time. So any definition of success is bound up with time. With other things you can say, "Can I yo-yo? Can I juggle?" Usually you have a pretty small window in which to get your answer. Stand-up is different. You can't do stand-up for one night and say, "Am I a funny stand-up comedian?" In two months or two years you'll start to realize it. — Demetri Martin

Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids) is a gimmick comedian who has devoted her short career to being obese and obnoxious with equal success. — Rex Reed

I lived in the Muslim world for 10 years. — Juan Cole

I don't have a lot of recreation time. I've always been under the assumption that if you're selling tickets you need to work. The kind of success that's happened to me maybe only happens to one comedian every twenty years and so I'm on the road constantly. — Larry The Cable Guy

There are men who need to defile themselves in order to get on with their lives. — Rick Moody

And what is the reaction of the British politcal class? Well the Lib Dems, still think that the Euro is a success! I don't quiet think where Cleggy gets this from, I don't know. Prehaps he is cosidering an alternative career, as a stand up comedian, once he's out of politics. — Nigel Farage

I think the harder you work, the more luck you have. — Dave Thomas

I never thought much about success early on. I only thought about being a comedian - or just being in show business, is really more accurate. — Steve Martin

I have this friend who has a theory that lots of towns have energies. And, for instance, certain places in Alabama have bad ones because they were built on reservations or built on cemeteries or something. But Nashville has a really gravitational, magnetic pull. — Caitlin Rose

We stayed mute and disloyal
because we were afraid

I would have touched my fingers
to where your breasts had been
but we never did such things — Adrienne Rich

The difficulties of not knowing are always much greater than the effort of learning. — Andrew Loomis

Unfortunately, the show's success comes at the expense of its biggest asset
the comedians themselves. — Richard Pryor

No machine can wind a better sounding or tighter wind than a well trained person, — Leo Fender

On most TV shows, you work on a set and do some location. — J. Michael Straczynski

THAT NIGHT, AT ONE OF LONDON'S OPEN-MIC SESSIONS, A YOUNG comedian enjoyed his first success, telling the tale of the naked Yank who mugged him for a tuxedo. — Anthony Chapman