Subject: People » Self (Page 10)

For weeks I’ve been telling him not to buy anything for my birthday, and he still forgot to bring me something.

In elementary school, I made an ashtray for Dad… it caught fire.

(1955 – ) American actor, comedian, producer, director & singer

He called me a ‘rapist’ and a ‘recluse’ … I’m not a recluse.

(1966 – ) American boxing champion

One time my whole family played hide and seek; they found my mother in Pittsburgh!

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

You mean there aren't enough people mad at me already?

(1911 – 2004) 40th U.S. president & actor

The only reason I exist is so my shadow would have something to do.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

I had slumps that lasted into the winter.

(1935 – ) American baseball player, sportscaster, comedian & actor

I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

I'm just a person trapped in a woman's body.

(1952 – ) comedian

Self-abuse is the sincerest kind.

David Gerrold (1944 – ) science fiction author

As a child I most closely identified with Charlie Browns teacher… nobody listened.

(1970 –) American stand-up comedian

I’m fairly certain that the only reason I was born crippled was because God knew I wouldn’t be able to resist the urge to become a stripper.

American comedian

It does not take a rocket scientist to coach a professional football team, but, of course, I was one of the few who happened to be a rocket scientist.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

With my ol’ man, I got no respect. He told me to start at the bottom. He was teaching me how to swim.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

All my life affection has been showered on me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

All my life I’ve wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought.

American writer

Frasier: I’ve been taking stock of myself.

Carla: Not exactly AT&T, is it?

(1948 – ) American actress

I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something's wrong with me.

(1952 – ) comedian

My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.


(1907 – 1973) poet & critic

My shrink told me that my happiness was stress related.

(1947 – ) comedian & actor

It's not what you are but what you don't become that hurts.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor