- Certain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020
My wife Hillary sometimes accuses me of trying to reinvent the 19th century. In some ways she's right because I like things that I can understand and that aren't too complicated.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one term I don't like to be called is a 'vulture.' Because to me, a vulture is a kind of asset-stripper that eats dead flesh off the bones of a dead creature. Our bird should be the phoenix, the bird that reinvents itself, recreates itself from its ashes. And that's much closer to what it is that we really do.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was joking the other day about how my real life feels like a TV show, and my TV life feels real - because, to be on Thursday nights on NBC, which is what I grew up with, has been such a big part of inspiring me. To be part of that tradition is really completely surreal, and I'm so grateful.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember my agent at ICM at the beginning of my career telling me that I wasn't pretty enough, that I was always going to be a quirky sidekick. And he was an ogre of a man. He should have been carrying a torch. If he was in a bar, he couldn't have come near me, and then he was deciding my fate.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't one of those kids who stole Richard Pryor records. I wasn't a comedy-nerd kid. I had no concept of stand-up. Actually, the only inkling of stand-up I had was I read one of Paul Reiser's books when I was, like, 12. I found it at a yard sale, and I carried it around with me for six years.
- Frustration
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- Nov 07, 2020
For writing stand-up, I have to have a little bit of anger and frustration to be motivated to do it. Stand-up, for me, comes from kind of a hostile engine.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
My body is not supportive of my career. My body has other plans for me. My body's plan is to slowly rot from the inside. By the time I'm ready to have kids, it's not going to be viable to do that.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I almost wish I could be more exciting, that I could match what is happening out there to me.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.
- Nov 07, 2020
My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've turned down a lot of arena dates because I've done the big-arena thing. Now, I want to do something where people can feel me and I can feel them.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a mother that's very strong and family that surround me and constantly tell me they love me.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've got some good saints out there - that's right - that pray for me constantly. You've gotta have that! You do.
- River
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- Nov 07, 2020