I'm world champion, baby!
While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, we're having fun.
As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian.
My whole act is confession.
Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.
I am careful with my material and presentation.
As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.
And now Rocky is begging me to watch Dora the Explorer with him. I understand that millions of kids love Dora and have learned to read or whatever from her show. But I wouldn't mind if Dora fell off a cliff and took her little pals with her
The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature. At her lowest her works are the works of the highest powers, the highest something in the universe, in whichever way we look at it. . . This is the charm of Study from Nature itself; she brings us back to absolute truth wherever we wander.
The only way that a mother would go after her own children is if she's just completely gone and has no humanity.
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.