“I feel that in-person contact with people is the most important thing in comedy. While I'm up on stage, I can actually put myself into the audience and adjust my pace and tuning to them. I can get into their heads through their ears and through their eyes. Only through this total communication can I really achieve what I'm trying to do.” PeopleFeelsTryingPersonsI CanImportantEyeAudienceComedyAchieveStageCommunicationEarsImportant ThingsContactCommunication SkillsPaceTuning Author:Bill Cosby
“A person with no children says, "Well I just love children," and you say "Why?" and they say, "Because a child is so truthful, that's what I love about 'em - they tell the truth." That's a lie, I've got five of 'em. The only time they tell the truth is if they're having pain.” IfsWellsChildrenPersonsHumorFunnyPainLyingFiveTruth IsTelling The TruthEmsTruthfulOnly TimeChildren Love Author:Bill Cosby
“Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.” PersonsProblemWhiteBoardsBrownVersusBoard Of Education Author:Bill Cosby
“Emotionally, a person can become so negatively driven that they don't respect the privilege of being on this Earth without their mother and their father. They may say it doesn't bother them, but there is something in us about those who are a biological part of us and don't care. People in that situation stop hearing the other voices that love them, hold them, trust them and tells them how great they are. They're focused on that one person who isn't answering them.” PeopleMayPersonsCareEarthMotherFatherVoiceSituationPrivilegeDon't CareHearingFocusedDrivenBotherThat One Person Author:Bill Cosby
“I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior. If you go through a weekly Monday through Friday, it's all there. It's in how people on the sitcoms and cop shows talk to each other.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenLooksKindChildrenPersonsShowsMediaTelevisionBehaviorMen And WomenMajorityCriminalsCopMultipleMondayFridaySitcomGangstersProfanityCriminal Behavior Author:Bill Cosby
“Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity.” PersonsFatherHouseFamilyGeniusIntelligentStupidityFakeFunny Family Author:Bill Cosby
“Because for me it is almost analgesic to talk about what the white man is doing against us. And it keeps a person frozen in their seat, it keeps you frozen in your hole you’re sitting in.” MenPersonsWhiteSittingHolesSeatsWhite ManFrozen Author:Bill Cosby
“I often try to tell kids to think about all the people who love you, don't cry over the one person who doesn't.” PeopleThinkingLoveTryingPersonsKidsLove YouCry Author:Bill Cosby
“When a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing ... will win arguments and straighten people out.” PeopleMindPersonsSometimesWinningGunArgumentClicks Author:Bill Cosby
“There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.” IfsPersonsDoeWorkQualityLaborLabor DayLabour DayHappy Labor DayLabor Day WishesLabour Day Weekend Author:Bill Cosby
“Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'” KnowsPersonsSometimesStoriesBodyParentWalksActingWorryFoolUp To YouSuccess StoriesOld Person Author:Bill Cosby
“I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.” ThinkingMenLooksKindChildrenPersonsShowsMediaTelevisionBehaviorMen And WomenMajorityCriminalsMultipleGangstersProfanityCriminal Behavior Author:Bill Cosby
“A white person listens to my act and he laughs and he thinks, 'Yeah, that's the way I see it too.' Okay. He's white. I'm Negro. And we both see things the same way. That must mean that we are alike..... So I figure I'm doing as much for good race relations as the next guy.” ThinkingWayMeanPersonsGuyNextWhiteRaceLaughingFiguresRacismOkayRelationYeahBigotryRace RelationsEnding Racism Author:Bill Cosby
“I'm not going out and hitting a 95-mph fastball where I can't see the stitches. I'm not on a professional football team looking to tackle a fullback who is built like solid wood. I'm a thinking person, and I've been blessed with the ability to see some things and talk about them in a way that registers in a humorous and funny way.” ThinkingWayPersonsI CanAbilityTeamFootballHumorousBuiltBlessedWoodsHittingGoing OutThanksgivingRegisterFootball TeamAbility To SeeStitchesFastballsMphThinking Person Author:Bill Cosby
