"If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game."

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"I went for an outrageous form of expressing myself. It seemed to be a way that I could make my name and show that I was somebody."

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"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock."

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"My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?"

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"I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names."

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"By the early '70s I had gotten reasonable and I started to get in hundreds of groups that rehearsed and never played at all. I mean, the most important thing was to look good and have a great name."

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"Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff."

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"A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it."

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"I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed."

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"I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry... just make me feel alive."

"Whatever you do gives you the name it gives."

"I went for an outrageous form of expressing myself. It seemed to be a way that I could make my name and show that I was somebody."

"Great was the name of Abraham, but all his Sons were not accepted; only Isaac was in the Covenant."

"Back then, everyone was Lana and Rock. No one had ethnic names."

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

"I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock."

"My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?"

"I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names."

"By the early '70s I had gotten reasonable and I started to get in hundreds of groups that rehearsed and never played at all. I mean, the most important thing was to look good and have a great name."

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"Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff."

"A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it."

"A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water."

"I'm a charming coward; I fight with words."

"The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh."

"I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed."

"Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh."

"If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game."