Colin Quinn Quotes
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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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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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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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Everybody's funny in different ways.
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I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you couldn't be a comedian.
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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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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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If I had to give up everything else and keep just one aspect of the job, I'd have to keep writing because I love it. Yes, I enjoy performing, too. But I couldn't give up writing material.
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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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With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.
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So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation.
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I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your wit.
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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 love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself.
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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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The thing that drives me crazy is when comics say 'I have low self-esteem.' No you don't. You're standing on stage asking people to pay. You don't play an instrument. You want people to pay to hear what's in your mind. You don't have low self-esteem. You might have other problems.
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I'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial.
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I think everyone should own six guns, even though I don't own any.
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You know, the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that, you can go over one million things, but in a business of bean counters, he still likes to laugh at small things and creates a show around it.
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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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I'm just another guy who thinks he's smarter than he is, in a long line of them.
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I think I identify more with the smart guy, but most people might take umbrage at that. I like to think of myself as a real thinker, but I suppose people might beg to differ.