Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I was born a comic. "

Related Quotes:

" I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen. "

" I have known Michael Richards for something like 20 years. We're friends. "

" I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out. "

" I got my sense of humor from my grandmother. You know, my grandmother was very funny. "

" My comedy is a nuclear bomb inside my mind. It's a weapon that's never been tested. It just blows up and flattens everybody. "

" I think about never losing my voice, never giving in, never selling out, always keeping black, always sticking to the street. Staying neighborhood and not Hollywood. "

" People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy. "

" When they were making black films in the '60s and the '70s, everyone knew their place, if you get my drift. You understand? Everyone knew the rules, and everyone knew their place. Everyone knew what to say. They had the written rules in Hollywood film, and the unwritten rules. "

" I like when people are trapped in the joke, when there's no escape. I like to lead people down the wrong path and then trap them. "

" I have such an ego 'cause I'm a double Leo. I can't let go of me, you know, so it's very difficult for me to be somebody else and not me. I'm so into me. "

" Julie Christie, I used to hang out with her. She was friends with Richard Pryor and Warren Beatty and all of them. There was a club in Beverly Hills called the Candy Store, a private club. I used to hang out with them all. "

" Tennessee Williams knew about the South, but he would clean it up and lie about it. "

" You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it. "

" Hillary Clinton could say she was a woman and running for president. And Sarah Palin could say she was a woman and running for vice-president. But Obama couldn't say, 'I'm black and I'm running for president.' It couldn't come out of his mouth. He couldn't say that because, if he did, he'd lose votes. "

" America has a rap sheet. You can't police the world and tell the world how to act when you're just as bad yourself. "

" I like comedy, I mean, in all forms. "

" I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive. "

" There's always a message in my comedy. "

" I think I have a mental nappy attitude. "

" White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that. "

" An audience can be like a pack of wolves. "

" There's no such thing as reverse racism. "

" Listen, we've got one little ol' black president, and white folks are upset, but they've had 43. "

" Arizona has always been anti-black. "

" When you know who you are, you know who you are. That's the real dangerous thing in Hollywood, because they all want to create you and mold you. "

" America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race.' "

" I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here. "

" I'm like the Davy Crockett of comedy... after Davy Crockett opened up the West and helped everybody... they didn't need him anymore. I freed a lot of comics... if I never would have done comedy, it would've been a different art form... I'm sure of it. "

" Robin Williams learned technique. He has the technique of being funny. "

" Handshaking means, 'I don't have a weapon.' "