Comedienne Quotes

#1. People are always introducing me as Sarah Silverman, Jewish comedienne. I hate that! I wish people would see me for who I really am - I'm white!

Sarah Silverman

#2. I was a dedicated, boring student. The last thing I wanted was to be a comedienne.

Anne Meara

#3. My career is as an actress. I am an actress playing a comedienne.

Joan Rivers

#4. Lucille was a darling lady. Probably the finest comedienne in the business.

Robert Stack

#5. As an actress and comedienne, I'm a huge fan of he theatre and the Tricycle in Kilburn is my favourite in London. I dragged my kids to a performance of 'Twelfth Night' there, where they handed out pizza. Who knew that all it takes to get children interested in Shakespeare is a snack?

Arabella Weir

#6. Particularly fine is the top-heavy comedienne, Loni Anderson, as the receptionist whose movements turn men to stone ... she keeps her head while all the men around her are losing theirs.

James Wolcott

#7. For a comedienne, you have to have a little tragedy or a dark side, just not too much. Otherwise it's too disruptive.

Rebel Wilson

#8. I'm not a comedienne. I'm an actress.

Pam Dawber

#9. During her lifetime, Marilyn Monroe was underrated as a dramatic actress, and this rightly rankled her - but she was also overrated as a comedienne.

Eve Golden

#10. I became a stand-up comedienne because I had a sit-down husband.

Phyllis Diller

#11. I'm a really gifted physical comedienne. I write and produce a lot of sketch comedy.

Jenn Lyon

#12. Becoming a comedienne was my way of adjusting to puberty.

Phyllis Diller

#13. My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown.

Sally Kellerman

#14. Aunt Zo, who never missed a chance to lament her marriage, had said at dinner in her comedienne's voice, My husband. Always the bridesmaid and never the bride.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#15. Thought about being a stand up comedienne for zombies, but when they eat you alive, they really eat you!!

Neil Leckman

#16. Half of me is this wacked-out comedienne who will do anything for a buck and a laugh. Well, at least for a laugh. But the other half is a lot darker, sadder and more pensive. It's the dark side that feeds the outrageousness and allows it to surface. I think that's true for anyone with comic flair.

Faith Prince

#17. When I was doing comedy in New York, before I was in movies, I was never known as the deadpan actress. I was just a comedienne.

Aubrey Plaza

#18. I hardly ever belted; I was a soprano and a comedienne and intended on doing mostly soprano legit roles but my first equity show, to my surprise, was Blues in The Night at The Cleveland Playhouse.

Erica Schroeder

#19. I sort of consider myself a comedic actress, not a comedienne. I think it's different. You know, I'm not a stand-up or anything, but playing into comedic situations is sort of where, I think, my strength lies.

Zooey Deschanel

#20. I'm a confident person. I just try to be me. I like to make people laugh, I am a comedienne - so if people find me sexy, that's awesome.

Ashley Tisdale

#21. As far as sitcoms go, I thought Jenna Elfman in 'Dharma and Greg' was a wonderful physical comedienne who had great timing.

Carol Burnett

#22. I'm a light comedienne; that's really where I live the most often.

Beth Broderick

#23. He was not used to being at a loss. Usually, he was the gentleman with the plan. Every little detail cataloged and put in its place. But now he had no place, and the details were everywhere.

Lish McBride

#24. Our Positivity repels the external negative energy and attract the positive energy.

Sukant Ratnakar

#25. Or if you don't like that . . . Michael. Michael's a nice name, Robert offered into the long silence. He cleared his throat after he spoke, and looked out of the attic windows, into the woods surrounding the Academy.

Cassandra Clare

#26. The LORD is faithful to all his promises and loving toward all he has made

Jim Cymbala

#27. My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her mother, my grandma. That's where I trace the familial line of murder mystery obsession.

Christopher Bollen

#28. One of the best parts of working at 'O' is that people just love to send us stuff.

Gayle King

#29. If you're going to be sexy in a photo, you'd better be thinking about sex rather than about being sexy.

Peta Wilson

#30. Don't worry about finding your bliss right now. Not even our President knew what his bliss was, nor did I. One of these days to your own surprise, your bliss will find you. But no matter what you do, participate, be there, full force, full heart, full steam ahead.

Barbara Walters

#31. It's an alien toilet!" -Cassie

Katherine Applegate

#32. Free will is like fallen
leaves agreeing to be
where they are.

Salamanca

#33. Bill O'Reilly, Megyn Kelly, and Sean Hannity are the Mount Rushmore of keeping old people angry.

Joel McHale