Colin Quinn Comedian Quotations

I don't know any comedian who tailors his act to his audience. Maybe people say they do, but I can't even imagine them.

I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you couldn't be a comedian.

I'm quietly becoming New York's premiere actor. People don't understand. They have me pigeon-holed as a comedian.

He is very dry but also very funny... I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.

My perception is that Jerry was a stand-up comedian for years and years,

For the most part, comedians are pretty friendly with each other. They always say they badmouth each other, but most of the time, they're friends. We're the only ones that can really stand our type of humor.

A weird sort of awareness set in, like, 'Wow. My stand-up isn't just separate from everything else I do anymore.' With Twitter and Face book, everything is universal that everything everybody says gets seen.

With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.

That's the beauty of being a comedian - it's the one job you're allowed to do that. We're lucky. We're really lucky.