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" A comedian sees the world bent. I'm tangent to the circle. "
World
Sees
Circle
" A comic, you have to be looking down at him. My favorite rooms, the audience is above the stage, stadium-style. "
Looking
You
Audience
" As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. "
Family
Choices
Child
" At the Sahara, the seats are banked and most of the audience is looking down at the stage. Everybody in the business knows: Up for singers, down for comics. The people want to idealize a singer. They want to feel superior to a comic. You're trying to make them laugh. They can't laugh at someone they're looking up to. "
You
Looking
Laugh
" Golf is more fun than walking naked in a strange place, but not much. "
Walking
Place
More
" I found out that if you made people laugh, they like you. Most people got to like me because I made them laugh. When they didn't, I hit them. "
Me
Like
Laugh
" If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes. "
You
People
Laugh
" I have the gift of laughter. I can make people laugh at will. In good times and in bad. And that I don't question. It was a gift from God. "
Laugh
Gift
God
" I'm an actor. I want to do drama. "
Want
Actor
Drama
" I used to like to dig myself a hole just to see how long it took to get out of it. "
Dig
Used
Myself
" I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing. "
Dancing
Why
Never
" I've had a good day when I don't fall out of the cart. "
Cart
Day
Out
" I was born to be funny. "
Born
I Was Born
Funny
" Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes. "
Voice
People
Laugh
" There have always been mixed emotions about Howard Cosell: Some people hate him like poison, and other people just hate him regular. "
Some People
Him
Hate
" What makes a comedian has nothing to do with religion. Think of Red Skelton, Jimmy Durante, Jackie Gleason, who were all Catholics. "
Who
Were
Think
" When I do an hour-and-a-half show, if I don't improvise 20 minutes worth of new material each night, I feel I've let myself down. "
Myself
Worth
Night
" You look up at drama, down at comedy. A singer, looking up is okay. A comic, it's death. "
Death
You
Looking
" You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it. "
Me
Boy
Growing
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