Colin Quinn Quotes

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I write all the time – I write poetry, I love to write.

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You can’t make money on Broadway. You make nothing. You maybe make like $1,350 a week after you pay out all the producers.

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

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I’m always working on stuff. But they never materialize. I’m always working on movies and TV shows.

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I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can’t sustain it.

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Everybody’s funny in different ways.

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I think everyone should own six guns, even though I don’t own any.

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People’s – most people‘s job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It’s not even paper.

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I’ve been to Japan, I’ve been to China, I’ve been to Africa, I’ve been to the Middle East, I’ve been to Europe a little bit. I’ve never been to South America.

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I think Helen of Troy must have been pretty hot. She got two countries going crazy for 10 years over her.

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You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There’s no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you’re finished. It’s impossible to predict anything.

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Everybody’s got a different sense of humor. It’s just different styles.

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Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We’re not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We’re meant to be this way. It’s not our fault, it’s just who we are.

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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.

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When I look back now I realize I was such an obnoxious kid but, you know, I went to schools like you, like a public school in New York so compared to the anarchy that was going on there, they really wouldn’t – I wasn’t like a bad kid. I saw people come in and punch the teachers.

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I was a class clown.

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You can’t make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody.

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I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your wit.

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I think if you try to tailor your act to anybody, you end up with an act that doesn’t work anyway.

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I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself.

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I always wanted to write as much as perform.

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Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.

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If I had to give up everything else and keep just one aspect of the job, I’d have to keep writing because I love it. Yes, I enjoy performing, too. But I couldn’t give up writing material.

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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.

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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.

Colin Quinn

The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don’t tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either.

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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.

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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.

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The mistake that people make in stand-up is thinking they’re profound or they’re deep when there are so many people who have more worthwhile ways of phrasing things.

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I like guy stuff.

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