#comedians

I'm attracted to working with comedians because they don't have that stars' idea of what a hero should be. The downside is they're always addressing the camera too much. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#always #attracted #because #camera #comedians

I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians. ↗

— Ben E. King

#i #i do #lot #vegas #work

Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the rest of their career. ↗

— Chris Rock

#comedians #comfort #comfort zone #find #rest

The only one that got through was Jimmy Walker, because he plays the gas station attendant. I mean, there's nothing wrong with it, it's just that we were kind of purists at the time, and we didn't want any comedians. ↗

— David Zucker

#attendant #because #comedians #gas #gas station

I like video games, but they're really violent. I'd like to play a video game where you help the people who were shot in all the other games. It'd be called 'Really Busy Hospital. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#demetri-martin #funny #games #helping-others #humor

Nothing is a joke with me. It just all comes out like one. ↗

— Lorrie Moore

#jokes #life #life

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

— Julie Brown

#fun #function #i #i think #icons

Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody. ↗

— Florenz Ziegfeld

#comedians #customers #funny #great #had

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

— Johann Georg Zimmermann

#imitations #usually

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