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Quotes by Comedian

"Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you."

"Ability is of little account without opportunity."

"This stammer got me a home in Beverly Hills, and I'm not about to screw with it now."

"Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope."

"Don't order one for the road, because the road is already laid out."

"Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners."

"I have a new joke today. Martha Stewart's on suicide watch. They had to unplug all of her ovens."

"In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One."

"Saying, 'I'm sorry' is the same as saying, ' I apologize.' Except at a funeral."

"It's the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you."

"Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?"

"If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat."

"Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting."

"What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?"

"Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway."

"About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment."

"If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters."

"Every time I see Peter Falk in the movie I think that would be great. We'd be fun together."

"I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine."


"I'm not against half naked girls - not as often as I'd like to be."

"People who don't use the tools given to them only injure themselves."

"I'm under stress. They killed me on wikipedia. They killed me. And I didn't stay dead long enough to sell no DVDs. I didn't even stay dead long enough - I was too stupid. I should've stayed low. I should've laid low. I could've been gone for a year; I'd have made money. And then I'd have risen from the dead."


"I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something's wrong with me."

"When you enter a room, you have to kiss his ring. I don't mind, but he has it in his back pocket."

"Don't bother me while I'm eating, or when I'm coming out of the crackhouse or something. Just let me get going."

"Washington, DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese."

"My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift."

"One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like."

"My girlfriend bought me a down jacket, she said it fit my personality."

"It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things."

"If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'"

"I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good."

"It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it."
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