Subject: People » Self (Page 19)

When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

I deserve someone who likes me for who I am pretending to be.

(1974 – ) American stand-up comedian & actor

Some people are widely read – I'm thinly read.

(1962 – ) English stand-up comedian & actor

Once when I was lost, I saw a policeman and asked him to help me find my parents.  I said to him, “Do you think we’ll ever find them?”  He said, “I don’t know kid; there’s so many places they can hide.”

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

We have the power to bore people long after we are dead.

(1885 – 1951) American novelist, short-story writer & playwright

If you view your problem closely enough, you will recognize yourself as part of the problem.

I have a lot of stories about being a kid because it was the last time I was interesting.

(1982 – ) American comedian, actor, writer & producer

Roses are red, violets are blue, I’m schizophrenic and so am I.

(1942 – ) Scottish comedian, musician & actor

Note to self: Stop. Doing. Anything.

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

I wanna tell you… I was ugly. I was so ugly, I went to the proctologist and he stuck his fingers in my mouth.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

I sold my memoirs of my love life to Parker Brothers – they’re going to make a game out of it.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

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

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine… (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

When I die, I’m leaving my body to science fiction.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

I get up and a button falls off… I pick up my briefcase and the handle falls off; I'm afraid to go to the bathroom.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

I know [my head] is big because every time I'm in a picture, it always looks like I'm really close to the camera.

Canadian comedian

It wasn't that no one asked me to the prom, it was that no one would tell me where it was.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

(1969 – ) American actress, comedian, producer & writer

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

(1921 –2003) American editorial & war cartoonist

Facetime fulfills a secret human desire: to mostly look at yourself while talking to other people.

(1982 – ) American comedian & actress

The first sentence that I was taught to say by my parents as a little boy was: “Of course I know that I’m wrong.”

(1947 – ) comedian & actor