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" If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends? "
Steven Wright
Friends
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Her
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" I've been doing comedy longer than I haven't been doing comedy, as I was performing for three years before I even got on 'The Tonight Show.' There's truly nothing like it; it's intense and exhilarating, even though it looks so casual. "
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" It usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear. "
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" I love eating chocolate cake and ice cream after a show. I almost justify it in my mind as, 'You were a good boy onstage and you did your show, so now you can have some cake and ice cream.' "
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Love
" When I was a kid, I went to the store and asked the guy, Do you have any toy train schedules? "
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Kid
You
Train
" Honestly, I just go to restaurants to eat so I won't die. If there was a pill I could take in January and then I wouldn't have to eat again for the rest of the year, I would take it. Of course, I wouldn't want to sacrifice my chocolate cake and ice cream. "
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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. "
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Mind
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Three
" I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time. "
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Coffee
Almost
Time
" If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen? "
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Speed
Turn
You
" I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, 'What for?' I said, 'I'm going to buy some sugar.' "
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Bank
Money
Going
" I'm addicted to placebos. "
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Addicted
" There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators. "
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Power
People
" I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose. "
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Children
Books
Purpose
" At one point he decided enough was enough. "
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Decided
Enough
He
" If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer? "
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Should
Use
You
" The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing. "
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Got
Weather
Tired
" I don't go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it's contrived and forced. I just live my life, and I see things in a word or a situation or a concept, and it will create a joke for me. "
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Down
Situation
My Life
" I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side. "
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Way
Visionary
Future
" 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. "
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Guy
Off
Talk
" The other day I... uh, no, that wasn't me. "
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Me
Other
Day
" I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone. "
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Stop
Car
Gone
" I intend to live forever. So far, so good. "
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Live
Far
Forever
" On the other hand, you have different fingers. "
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Other
Different
Fingers
" I've been thinking of humorous things since I was... I can't remember when. All the way through elementary school, all the way through junior high, all the way through high school, through college and after college, I was thinking of the same kinds of things that I say in front of an audience now. "
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School
Thinking
High School
" I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I've read the Bible twice wearing each pair, and it's the same. "
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Bible
Twice
Two
" I haven't changed at all. I'm the same as when I was 11. "
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Same
Changed
" When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, 'Well, what do you need?' "
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Canada
You
Well
" There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. "
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Shore
Standing
Fishing
" I saw a bank that said '24 Hour Banking', but I don't have that much time. "
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Much
Time
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" I got a chain letter by fax. It's very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list. "
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Simple
Chain
Dollar