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Quotes by Comedian

"If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor."

"Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light."

"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."

"Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own."

"Maybe... there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for unlawfully detaining 120 people. Maybe they just got carried away with last year's idea of pre-emptive strikes and thought, 'Let's not wait for an actual crime to occur. Let's get the innocent."

"When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship."

"Yeah I'm thirty-six, but on the show I'm thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year old woman, so they decided to make me thirty-two. Much more appealing somehow."

"I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you."

"I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It's my own paranoia."

"I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see."


"Back then, I was doing more of my impression of what a comic is supposed to do."

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

"Because I have a girlfriend, I try and take the straight and narrow path, which is good because it prevents VD."

"We are not imperialists. We don't even try to take over Canada. It would be easy, although it might take a rear guard action to guard Anne Murray."

"I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance."
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"You know, the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that, you can go over one million things, but in a business of bean counters, he still likes to laugh at small things and creates a show around it."

"The hardest part about being a kid is knowing you have got your whole life ahead of you."

"I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not."

"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 actually got the part. And I thought, Well, I'll do it for a while. I'll just quit if it's stupid."

"My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them."

"Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders."

"I am full of gratitude for my life - and for this house."

"I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim."


"I don't know how this company got the name National Shakespeare Company, because it was literally like retards employing retards."

"I try to do something the audience might not have seen before. Like if I'm gonna kiss a girl I wanna kiss her like a girl has never been kissed. Like maybe I would kick her legs out from under her and catch her right before she hits the ground and then kiss her."


"I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn't do drugs or drink or smoke."

"Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years."

"I realize that I am not a journalist. So anything I say is not important."

"It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people."
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