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" I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol. "
Steven Wright
Fast
Way
Worry
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" When I'm on stage, it's really intense. My mind is going a million miles an hour, trying to remember my act, trying to say it all the right way. It's funny how different it looks and how it's happening. There are three Fellini circuses in my head, and outwardly it looks like I'm going to get a bagel. "
Steven Wright
Mind
Remember
Three
" Like other kids wanted to become firemen or astronauts, I wanted to make people laugh. "
Steven Wright
Become
Laugh
People
" My secret to staying young... Having no sense of time. "
Steven Wright
No Sense
Young
Time
" I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I'm very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I'm feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It's gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be. "
Steven Wright
Imagination
Thought
Feeling
" Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go over to a little baby and say 'What are you doing here? You haven't worked a day in your life!' "
Steven Wright
Me
Vacation
Baby
" If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke? "
Steven Wright
Laughs
Forest
Joke
" If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer? "
Steven Wright
Going
You
Would
" Very rarely do I talk off the top of my head on stage. I'm not an improv guy. I'm a writer-guy who presents what he's written. "
Steven Wright
Guy
Off
Talk
" You can't have everything. Where would you put it? "
Steven Wright
Put
You
Would
" I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography. "
Steven Wright
Writing
Autobiography
" The other day I... uh, no, that wasn't me. "
Steven Wright
Me
Other
Day
" I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I'm home now. But leave a message and I'll call when I'm out. "
Steven Wright
Home
Car
Message
" Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.' "
Steven Wright
Me
Boat
Book
" I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an idiot. "
Steven Wright
Tired
Day
Birthday
" I didn't want to be selling insurance at 40, wondering what would it have been like to do stand-up. "
Steven Wright
Been
Like
Selling
" I'm going to get an MRI to find out whether I have claustrophobia. "
Steven Wright
Find
Get
Going
" I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second. "
Steven Wright
Subliminal
Second
Only
" I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place. "
Steven Wright
You
Park
Place
" My neighbor has a circular driveway... he can't get out. "
Steven Wright
Circular
Get
He
" Hermits have no peer pressure. "
Steven Wright
Peer
Hermits
Pressure
" If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know? "
Steven Wright
Know
Dictionary
How
" I had to stop driving my car for a while... the tires got dizzy. "
Steven Wright
Stop
Driving
Dizzy
" I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me - to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That's normally how I perform. That's how I am. "
Steven Wright
Face
School
Teacher
" I saw a bank that said '24 Hour Banking', but I don't have that much time. "
Steven Wright
Much
Time
Bank
" I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy. "
Steven Wright
Doing
Art
Creative
" I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time. "
Steven Wright
Coffee
Almost
Time
" Childhood was very nice. The only thing wrong was that I was so introverted, everything became a big deal... 'Oh, no, here comes the bus. Where am I gonna sit on the bus?' "
Steven Wright
Childhood
Everything
Wrong
" I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. "
Steven Wright
Thought
Poetry
Everything
" If God dropped acid, would he see people? "
Steven Wright
See
God
Would
" When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction. "
Steven Wright
Body
Death
Die