“I don't want to judge anyone's sex life - but I worry that those are the only options we are giving to our young people.” Quote by Christopher Rice
“I have things that are strident and confrontational, and I have a lot of things that are childlike and innocent and sort of sweet. So, somewhere in between lies the middle of me.” LyingMiddleSweetInnocentChildlike Author:George Carlin
“I actually was a writer who had the ability to perform his own work as opposed to a comedian who wrote his own material. So that really made me happy and changed my whole perspective.” MadeWholeAbilityChangedMaterialsPerspectiveComedian Author:George Carlin
“We kind of shape our truths as we speak them. We fashion things to suit the occasion or the person or our own needs in the moment.” NeedsKindPersonsMomentsSpeakFashionShapesSuitsOccasions Author:George Carlin
“To me the cynics are the ones in the boardrooms with the reports from the focus groups.” FocusGroupsReportsFocus Groups Author:George Carlin
“Comedy, I figured, was the thing that came to me the most easily. Playing the trumpet and piano took practice. I thought that was a waste of time. I'd go out on the street corner and be funny. In a minute.” PracticeComedyStreetsMinutesWasteCornersPianoWasting TimeTrumpetsStreet Corners Author:George Carlin
“I set out to become a comedian, and I said in order to do that the first thing I'll do is become a disc jockey and know my pop music. I like it, my voice is good, and I can start out getting confidence without an audience in front of me.” KnowsFirstsSaidI CanOrderVoiceAudienceFrontsPopsComedianPop MusicDiscsJockeys Author:George Carlin
“There was a built-in audience for the rebel in me that had been all along not expressing himself.” AudienceBuiltRebel Author:George Carlin
“Suddenly, I was thirty, very unhappy entertaining people in their forties, and here came a group of people in their teens and twenties who had similar anti-authority problems and similar dreams and wishes, hopes for mankind. So I gravitated toward them.” PeopleProblemDreamWishGroupsMankindAuthorityTwentiesUnhappyThirtyFortyEntertainingTeens Author:George Carlin
“When you start in the childhood period, when you begin to form a comic sense, it was the radio comedians - from the last days of radio and the first days of television. And Spike Jones. And the Marx Brothers. They represented anarchy. They took things that were nice and decent and proper, and they tore them to shreds. That attracted me.” FirstsLastsFormNiceChildhoodTelevisionBrotherPeriodsRadioComicComedianDecentAnarchyLast DayMarx Brothers Author:George Carlin