Comedienne's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Your mind believes what you tell it, so tell it positive things

Jennifer Milius

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

Phyllis Diller

#5. The rhythm of my body is the same as my mother tongue. It is in this rhythm where I find sanctity, that I can return to my mother who is everywhere in the universe.

Kim Hyesoon

#6. 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

#7. When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.

George Carey

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

Pam Dawber

#9. 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

#10. It's hard to maintain a reputation for being grim and mysterious when you're accompanied by a brightly clad young thing, skipping merrily along at your side, holding your hand, and smiling sweetly on one and all.

Simon R. Green

#11. 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

#12. How did mankind ever come by the idea of liberty? What a grand thought it was!

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#13. So much in life seems inflexible and unchangeable, and part of the joy of running and especially racing is the realization that improvement and progress can be achieved.

Nancy Anderson

#14. Be present for your own life.

Cheryl Strayed

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

Robert Stack

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

Joan Rivers

#17. You live your entire life trapped in a sack of meat, unable to enjoy simple pleasures

Rick Riordan

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

Anne Meara

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

Jenn Lyon

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

Beth Broderick

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

Phyllis Diller

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

Sally Kellerman

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

Neil Leckman

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. The worst words I could ever hear as a bass player was, 'Can you play the root notes?'

Peter Hook

#29. 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

#30. 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

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

Carol Burnett

#32. For it is in the arcana of dreams that existences merge and renew themselves, change and yet keep the same.

Bram Stoker

#33. When I came into the WWF, the first thing I really didn't want to have was being Bret Hart's little brother.

Owen Hart

#34. Then my first film was something called Cannibal Girls, which sounds like a horror movie but was actually kind of a goofy comedy with horror elements. Like a horror spoof.

Ivan Reitman