Andy Kaufman Quotes

What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality.

Andy Kaufman

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• When I sing, people shut up.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Up
  • Sing

• Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Earth
  • Government

• Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • People
  • Truth
  • Always

• Something like 'The Matrix' would be ideal, something where it's super agents and wire work and special effects - not necessarily running from bombs and shooting people. Something more sleek, like an assassin.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • People
  • Work
  • Running

• A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
  • Country
  • American

• I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Business
  • Friend

• We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Real
  • Learning
  • Information

• I wouldn't recommend being a musician to anyone. It's not glamorous. It's a lot of being dirty, not eating, playing for five people and one of them is the bartender.

  

  Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons
  • People
  • Dirty
  • Eating

• The pledge drive has everything going against it as broadcasting. It's repetitive. It's ad-libbed by people who can't ad-lib. It's about asking for money, which is something nobody wants to hear, even from their own relatives.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Money
  • Nobody

• I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Work
  • Always

• The country is stronger than the result of any one election. But we shouldn't forget that these are just ordinary people. I wish Americans would look at them level, not down or up - just level. It doesn't take some special dimension to be president.

  

  Jack Germond
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.

  

  Orson Welles
  • People
  • Believe
  • Different

• The fact is, funnily enough, that the people who seem to be most committed to causes also seem to be least invested in anyone actually talking to each other.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • People
  • Enough
  • Talking

• Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Reality
  • Play
  • Imagination

• As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • People
  • Writing
  • Movie

• People kind of have a misconception, because when someone calls me Theo and I correct them, say, 'No, my name is Malcolm,' they think I have an attitude about it and I don't want to be associated with the show.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • People
  • Attitude
  • Name

• Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • People
  • Good
  • Ideas

• If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Trying
  • Comedy
  • Clubs

• The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.

  

  Andrew Carnegie
  • May
  • Together
  • Age

• I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.

  

  Berkeley Breathed
  • Up
  • Different
  • Childhood

• It would be a real failure if agreeing that it [abortion] was not an electoral issue provided an alibi for taking it seriously as a public issue.

  

  Rowan Williams
  • Real
  • Failure
  • Issues

• What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality.

  

  Andy Kaufman
  • People
  • Real
  • Reality