Eugene Mirman Quotes

I don't know what it would be like to actually play guitar. I've toured with a lot of comedians and it's never been like it is for a rock band.

Eugene Mirman

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• In general, comedians are attracted to vice.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • General
  • Vice
  • Comedians

• I'm like the opposite of one of those comedians who's funny on stage and depressed behind closed doors . On record, I can get pretty dark, but in real life I'm very carefree. But when I'm happy, I ain't writing songs, I'm out having a laugh, being in love. I wouldn't have the time. If I ever get married, it'll be 'Darling, I need a divorce, it's been three years, I've got a record to write!'

  

  Adele
  • Life
  • Time
  • Writing

• Anything to declare? the customs inspector said."Two pound of uncut heroin and a manual of pornographic art," Mark answered, looking about for Kity. All Americans are comedians, the inspector thought, as he passed Parker through. A government tourist hostess approached him."Are you Mr. Mark Parker?""Guilty.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Art
  • Guilty
  • Comedians

• I would love to do a serious period drama. Oh, absolutely. I mean, you'll find most comedians want to do more serious stuff, most musicians want to be comedians, and most serious actors want to be musicians.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Serious
  • Drama
  • Period

• Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine.

  

  Artie Lange
  • People
  • Funny
  • Comedians

• Some comedians will tour and do these classic bits all the time. But now with YouTube and Comedy Central, people see your stuff, and they don't want to hear you do that again.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • People
  • Time
  • Comedy

• You go to any Jay-Z concert, and he plays his hits. Comedians don't have hits. You have to have a whole brand-new hour. You have no hits to rely on. It's the hardest thing.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Brand
  • Comedians
  • Hits

• I've always just wanted to sing in a rock band.

  

  Douglas Glenn Colvin Ramones
  • Wanted
  • Sing
  • Rock Band

• The ability for a woman to orally satisfy somebody in a rock band, that's important to a rock 'n' roll musician.

  

  Chad Kroeger Nickelback
  • Ability
  • Musician
  • Rock Band

• From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Generations
  • The Beatles
  • Rock Band

• I think when I first started discovering I could write songs, I was so naive. And it was after I got broken up with and had my heart sliced up into a bunch of little pieces that I was like, "I'm going to say this." I didn't even know how to play guitar.

  

  Gwen Stefani No Doubt
  • Discovering
  • Write Songs
  • Play Guitar

• Goodbye Pete Willis, hello Phil Collen. We decided to try to do something that no other rock band had tried before - blueprint "Sgt. Pepper". A period in time when we allowed our Pop sensibility to come to the fore ... and guess what? Our first major success...huge in the U.S. ... but nowhere else ..

  

  Joe Elliott Def Leppard
  • Success
  • Decided
  • Sensibility

• I can't play guitar, but I can sure make it howl.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Play Guitar

• Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know? And the more grave or important things are... You know, some comedians can get this disease where they get serious all the time.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Politics
  • Disease
  • Grave

• I think that sometimes only comedians can reach the peaks of tragedy.

  

  Roberto Benigni
  • Tragedy
  • Reach
  • Comedians

• A lot of us comedians are drawn to the stage or show business or whatever because we didn't feel so great about ourselves, and we didn't know how to do anything about that, so we sought external approval.

  

  Barry Crimmins
  • Great
  • Business
  • Comedians

• My theory about comedians is that their greatest fear is other people laughing at them. So comedy is an attempt to control and manipulate the thing they find most frightening.

  

  Ben Miller
  • Fear
  • Laughing
  • Manipulate

• It's very confusing to me why people take comedians so seriously.

  

  Brad Williams
  • People
  • Confusing
  • Comedians

• The personal boundaries, I think for comedians they're a little bit different anyway, but I think people - feel free to do stuff - It's interesting with comedians because when we walk on stage, oftentimes we're talking about ourselves for an hour and we're talking about very intimate details, so after hearing us for an hour, a lot of people feel very comfortable with us because they feel like they know us and they're our friends because we just told them our innermost secrets and details of our lives for an hour. What they forget is we know absolutely nothing about the audience.

  

  Brad Williams
  • Audience
  • Stage
  • Details

• I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyond that there was the pressure of being young and of not yet having done work you really liked, trademark work, breakthrough work.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Work
  • Done
  • Crazy

• I spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet. It is something so bright, loud, weird and delicate as to stupefy the senses.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Life
  • Weird

• How sad that we can now go up in aeroplanes and see that there are no gods upon the clouds.

  

  Gavin Pretor-Pinney
  • Gods
  • Clouds
  • Aeroplanes

• I don't know what it would be like to actually play guitar. I've toured with a lot of comedians and it's never been like it is for a rock band.

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • Comedians
  • Rock Band
  • Play Guitar