Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Rickles

The young comedians always ask me, 'What's the secret for staying around?' I tell them, 'There is no secret - just stay around. Longevity is the most important thing.'

David Steinberg

Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other.

Frank Caliendo

I think sometimes comedians and entertainers and artists, sometimes they get onstage, and it's all for what they want to do. I think you still need to do stuff for the audience. They're the ones who are making it possible.

Fred Allen

When a radio comedian's program is finally finished it slinks down Memory Lane into the limbo of yesteryear's happy hours. All that the comedian has to show for his years of work and aggravation is the echo of forgotten laughter.

Jeff Ross

It's up to comedians to shine the light on what's wrong in the world, and we don't want things swept under the rug.

Jeff Ross

Comedians second-guessing themselves is scary. Poor taste is not a crime and we can't forget that.

Miranda Hart

I am pleased to say that I am not a tortured comedian - I laugh a lot. My twenties weren't particularly happy, but it's the same for a lot of people. In your thirties, you realise that your life and your worries are really insignificant, and you have to force yourself to be more positive and take each day as a gift.

Bob Newhart

The greatest comedian I've ever seen is Jack Benny. He wasn't afraid of the silences.

Bob Newhart

For some reason, comedians are still children. The social skills somehow never reach us, so we say exactly what we think without weighing the results.

Val Kilmer

I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.

Chuck Palahniuk

People said that 'Fight Club' would be impossible to turn into a movie, but I think David Fincher loved that challenge.

Chuck Palahniuk

I thought 'Fight Club' was great as David Fincher's version.

T. R. Knight

David Mamet's writing is pretty spectacular, obviously. I like the honesty of it; I like how funny it is and how sad it is.

Victoria Beckham

What's David's role? David looks good, that's what David does. David looks good, and I'm the funny one, that's what I hear constantly. But I keep telling him that looks fade.

David Gilmour

Well, I am David Gilmour, the voice and guitar of Pink Floyd. I have been since I was 21.

Jackie Sherrill

When I got ready to leave, I recommended two people - R.C. and John David Crow. Fortunately, they were hired and they were able to keep things going without missing a beat. R.C. had all the ingredients to be a head coach. He was an outstanding recruiter. And he had a good feel for managing a staff from his work as defensive coordinator.

Jon Ronson

When David says that 12-foot blood-drinking child-sacrificing pedophile lizards secretly rule the world, he really is referring to lizards.

Charley Casserly

When David has time to throw, he does a good job. Offensive tackle is a hard position to solve unless you use a high draft pick, and we've used those picks on other positions. Good tackles aren't sitting there in free agency.

Amber Tamblyn

I think that people are definitely interested in the idea that Joan has conversations with God.

Max von Essen

When I'm working, I try to be serious and rest where I can. I just mark in rehearsals. I still train. I warm up. And I still take lessons from this unbelievable teacher in New York, Joan Lader. I try to be stretched and ready to go.

Christina Hendricks

My husband says, 'What Joan walk? You've always walked that way!'

Georganne Arrington

Shirley and Joan have done kids' shows for about 40 years now, and I think they've got it down.

Julie Klausner

I have nothing snarky to say about Joan Rivers' appearance. We should all be that happy with how we look on camera, frankly.

Jimmy Kimmel

On Letterman and Leno, it always bothers me when they go outside the studio and it's daytime.

Bruce Bochy

We're going to play Mike as much as we can.

Brandon Graham

And it was me, Troy, Jerone, Mike and Anthony.

Nicholas Hytner

Mike was a little nervous ... We weren't, because his reputation is so immense.

Jon Gruden

Mike Tomlin is a candidate, obviously, in Minnesota.

Dan Rooney

Mike speaks up all the time. I don't see him taking any back seat.

John Shirreffs

Mike said he was waiting for the call.

Shaun Alexander

Mike said from the very beginning, that we are always going to be the 'other' team.

Derek Schulz

Mike plays with a lot of passion in everything he does. It showed tonight.

Floyd Burnsed

Mike Neville's become more of a pocket passer. He's making the right reads and the right throws. He's come a long way.

Bikram Choudhury

Growing up in Bombay, I saw many sick people.

Nancy Grace

I grew up in a courtroom kind of like the one you saw in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - big, big courtroom, sometimes it didn't even have air conditioning.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

I was 15 or 16 when I first saw 'Once Upon A Time In America,' so I was quite young, but I was completely blown away.

Bethany Mota

One day I was in the grocery store, and I saw raspberries, and I was like, 'Oh, I can make a lip stain out of that.'

Sarah Hall

I was brought up in Cumbria where I saw all these fierce agricultural women.

Cate Blanchett

I saw the first 'How to Train Your Dragon' film with my children, and I found it utterly exhilarating.

Ileana LiMarzi

When the victim was in the car, she saw some narcotics paraphernalia.

Louise Post

I saw Styx in sixth grade. I loved Tommy Shaw. I got sneakers like him - he wore these tan Nikes.

Mike Martz

We didn't play well. I know what happened; you all know what happened. You saw it. A good, old-fashioned whipping is what we took.