Humor Profession Quotes

As soon as I realized you could be funny as a job, that was the job I wanted.

I never planned to be a comedian. I don't consider myself one now.

I'm funny. I'm a comedian. I'm not a clown.

Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.

I always assumed that at some point I would have to quit making jokes, get a real job and do something meaningful and productive that would actually benefit society. Fortunately this never happened.

I've never considered myself a comedian. I'm a comedic actor.

I love to write humor. If I could make a living doing it that is all I would write.

I don't think any of us think of ourselves as artists or actors - clowns, we'll accept that label.

My foray into comedy was to avoid getting a job.

When I started acting, doing theater stuff at a young age, I was always the comic relief-type roles, so I knew I had a funny bone and could make groups of people laugh, but I didn't really take it seriously until I started getting paid on a weekly basis; then I was like, 'Oh, well, this could be a lifestyle.'

There is no way I would ever want to be president for a second. It's much easier to make fun of them on the stage and get paid for it. With all the years of me lampooning the presidents in my act, I know I could never ever want that job.

You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.

I was a stand-up comedian for 10 years, if you can believe it. And I gave it up at age 22.

You know, I was the class clown in Catholic school, but I never thought I would make a living out of it!

I spent 25 years as a stand-up comedian.

I chose to do comedy instead of going to college.

My whole life, I knew that I was going to be funny for a living.

I'm probably more of a stand-up comedian than an actor.

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.

To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's the best job in the world.

I would never be rude about somebody else in my profession because we all do this same thing. We're just trying to make people laugh.

The house I've bought in London, the holidays, everything has been bought from making people laugh, and if you'd said to me when I was 14 that's how I was going to make my living, I would have smiled from ear to ear.

Because you make me laugh don't make you a comic. A comedian is a person who, that's how they make their living.