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" Stand-up is live, so I'm used to being live for most of my career. It's interesting. "
Colin Quinn
Most
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Interesting
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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. "
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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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" 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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Look
" Everybody's funny in different ways. "
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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 write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write. "
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" Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it. "
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" It was tumultuous, it was crazy, but I would not trade it for anything. "
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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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" 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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" My stand-up act? I combine the fact that the world is a violent place with the fact that each person is responsible for the situation they are in. "
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World
" 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 think everyone should own six guns, even though I don't own any. "
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Though
Think
Even
" 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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Good
Funny
Writing
" 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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America
Never
China
" I was a class clown. "
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Clown
Class
" You can't make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody. "
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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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" I like guy stuff. "
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Stuff
Like
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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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Place
" 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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" Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles. "
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Different
" I'm quietly becoming New York's premiere actor. People don't understand. They have me pigeon-holed as a comedian. "
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" I don't know any comedian who tailors his act to his audience. Maybe people say they do, but I can't even imagine them. "
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" My name has zero value. "
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Zero
" I always wanted to write as much as perform. "
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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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