Subject: People » Self (Page 2)

No, I’m breaking it in for a friend.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

I never apologize… I’m sorry but that’s the way I am.

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

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 called Dial-a-Prayer and they hung up on me.

(1924 – 1987) American stand-up ‘deadpan’ comedian and actor

Ya back home they call me the tie-dye shirt kid… well that and ‘faggot.'

American comedian

All right, brain, you don’t like me, and I don’t like you, but let's just get me through this, and I can get back to killing you with beer.

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

I can't sing, but I know how to, which is quite different.

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter

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

(1962 – ) English stand-up comedian & actor

I never saw my mother up close.

(1945 – ) American humorist (co-founder of National Lampoon)

One day my father took me aside… and left me there.

(1924 – 1987) American stand-up ‘deadpan’ comedian and actor

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

(1974 – ) American stand-up comedian & actor

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

(1896 – 1969) American congressman & senator (Illinois)

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Barbara and I celebrated our 51st wedding anniversary yesterday… we are very happy, but I would be happier if she got a job!

(1926 – 2017) American stand-up comedian & actor

I’m at the age where food has taken over the role of sex in my life. In fact last night, I put a mirror over my kitchen table.

(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

Hey, I don’t get respect from anyone… why, American Airlines thanked me for flying United.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

If I could kick the person in the tail that causes me the most problems I could not sit down for a week.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator

When I don't look like the tragic muse, I look like the smoky relic of the great Boston Fire.

(1832 – 1888) novelist

If people only knew as much about painting as I do, they would never buy my pictures.

(1802 – 1873) English painter