Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds.
Yakov Smirnoff
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I ARE Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is alw...
BOB NEWHART It's always impressive when talented comedians are easy laughers or generous with their laughs.
HANK AZARIA Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendo...
JACK BLACK I'm a big fan of comedians not having to apologize for anything. Nowadays it seems comedians are...
KEVIN DILLON If you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefu...
EDDIE IZZARD If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
YAKOV SMIRNOFF I fed my ego, but not my soul.
YAKOV SMIRNOFF I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
YAKOV SMIRNOFF After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
YAKOV SMIRNOFF When you like something, you find time to do it.
YAKOV SMIRNOFF As Americans after 9/11, we're much more united, together as a nation, and we got stronger, bett...
YAKOV SMIRNOFF I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what ...
YAKOV SMIRNOFF We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole ...
YAKOV SMIRNOFF I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter.
YAKOV SMIRNOFF My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a t...
YAKOV SMIRNOFF I have American in-laws, and I care about the environment. We don't use disposable diapers, whic...
YAKOV SMIRNOFF Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
YAKOV SMIRNOFF To my real estate agent, Chernobyl is a fixer-upper.
YAKOV SMIRNOFF Falling in love is a chemical reaction. But it wears off in a year. That's why you need a strong...
YAKOV SMIRNOFF The reason gas prices are so high is because the oil is in Texas and Oklahoma and all the dipsticks ...
YAKOV SMIRNOFF Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
YAKOV SMIRNOFF It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the si...
YAKOV SMIRNOFF In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB of...
YAKOV SMIRNOFF I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
YAKOV SMIRNOFF Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.
YAKOV SMIRNOFF Falling in love is a chemical reaction. But it wears off in a year.
YAKOV SMIRNOFF The ad in the paper said 'Big Sale. Last Week.' Why advertise? I already missed it. They're just rub...
YAKOV SMIRNOFF Many people are surprised to hear that we have comedians in Russia, but they are there. They are dea...
YAKOV SMIRNOFF Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the o...
YAKOV SMIRNOFF I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering.
YAKOV SMIRNOFF The ad in the paper said 'Big Sale. Last Week.' Why advertise? I already missed it. They'...
YAKOV SMIRNOFF If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.
YAKOV SMIRNOFF We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we'v...
YAKOV SMIRNOFF I was this non-threatening funny guy who contrasted the image of the Brezhnevs and the Reagans of th...
YAKOV SMIRNOFF In America you can always find a party. In Russia the party always finds you.
YAKOV SMIRNOFF In Russia, if a male athelete loses he becomes a female athelete.
YAKOV SMIRNOFF Comedians are the monkeys of acting. When you go to the zoo, everybody loves the monkey exhibit.
TRACY MORGAN Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don'...
BRIAN ENO There's always been some concern that adult subject matter should be quarantined from a page tha...
GARRY TRUDEAU That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kick...
DANA CARVEY To the extent that laws are founded on morality and on logic, they can lead men's hearts and min...
ROBERT KENNEDY It's bad timing, but a lot of kids become teenagers just as their parents are hitting their mid-...
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON There are a lot of famous comedians from Liverpool, then obviously the Beatles, and the football clu...
IAN RUSH Here's a top tip: get hold of a hardback edition of one of these pompous books, cut out the middle c...
A. CRETAN So I think all comedians are earning their wings into heaven. We're all going to heaven, but eve...
TRACY MORGAN I've perfected the art of busting on people. That's how comedians show each other love.
LESLIE JONES People's minds are overloaded with information.
ALLEN LEECH What's most galvanizing for me is the opportunity to be topical and relevant and entertaining. T...
KATHRYN BIGELOW Women are always beautiful.
VILLE VALO Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful yo...
KATE BECKINSALE Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.
DAN BROWN I've always been a fan of instructional videos. The bass-player ones are insane. The music on th...
FRED ARMISEN 28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems.
JAMES C. DOBSON It's ingrained in people's minds that it's a typecast and a stereotype that women are ju...
JULIA MICHAELS Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's ...
NICOLAS CAGE It's always impressive when talented comedians are easy laughers or generous with their laughs.
HANK AZARIA There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.
JIM ROHN I have always had huge respect for comedians/comediennes. It's because comedy is very hard to po...
SAMANTHA RUTH PRABHU Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than come...
ADRIAN EDMONDSON People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other...
ELIZABETH GASKELL I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians....
STEVE MARTIN Everybody's doing it. When I'm performing and I do the Dougie, the fans lose their minds.
DOUG E. FRESH I think there are different kinds of comedians, and I prefer the clowns who are going: 'I'm ...
MIRANDA HART Your passions are a bit like your fingerprints: Everybody has them; everybody's are different. O...
NICK WOODMAN There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.
ADAM MCKAY Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.
JIMMY WALES A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
WILL ROGERS It's not who you are, but what you're made of. It's not where you come from, but where you're going ...
CAREW PAPRITZ Peter...” She let her head fall back against the seat and sighed. “Let’s not go there.”
MICHEL FABER Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it's hard for giant egos to...
DICK CAVETT I am the rest between two notes which are somehow always in discord.
RAINER MARIA RILKE Speculation is an effort, probably unsuccessful, to turn a little money into a lot. Investment is an...
FRED SCHWED JR. It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're wri...
RACHEL WEISZ I always loved comedy, but I never knew it was something you could learn to do. I always thought tha...
PAUL REISER I want people who will stand up to me. People who are not afraid to say exactly what's on their ...
HENRY KRAVIS It's pretty much run by everybody. We're very involved in everything that goes on. We always...
ZAC HANSON That's a nice thing about being a topical standup: you can add in things to keep it fresh.
LONI LOVE Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians - and often in no better a light than 'A...
DON CORNELIUS Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on o...
GARY ROSS People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk ...
ANTON CHEKHOV People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk ...
ANTON CHECKOV Westerns are a type of picture which everybody can see and enjoy. Westerns always make money. And th...
RANDOLPH SCOTT Did you know that the human voice is the only pure instrument? That it has notes no other instrument...
NINA SIMONE Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you.
F. JOHNSON I find my fans are really funny people. Most comedians can't say that about their fans.
MIKE BIRBIGLIA It's simply delightful. The comedians are outstanding.
THERESA MCMANAMAN Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It...
GENE SIMMONS I was always the class clown; I made my family laugh, and that was when I was always happiest. I gre...
SARAH SILVERMAN It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect ...
BRENDAN BEHAN A film like 'The Sixth Sense' burns an image of who you are into people's minds.
HALEY JOEL OSMENT That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves ou...
BUD ABBOTT Not every relationship works, and that is the truth, and I don't care whether you're a movie...
GOLDIE HAWN The young comedians always ask me, 'What's the secret for staying around?' I tell them, ...
DON RICKLES The comedians I liked were Bill Cosby and Steven Wright, like just always as a comedic actor. I alwa...
DEMETRI MARTIN Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU We are never at ease because our minds are always at attention.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Everybody was hitting the ball that inning for us.
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