Colin Quinn Quotes

Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We're meant to be this way. It's not our fault, it's just who we are.
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Time, Great, Crazy

My name has zero value.
Colin Quinn

Value, Name, Zero

My stand-up act? I combine the fact that the world is a violent place with the fact that each person is responsible for the situation they are in.
Colin Quinn

Person, Place, Fact

The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either.
Colin Quinn

Life, Living, Tell

The thing that drives me crazy is when comics say 'I have low self-esteem.' No you don't. You're standing on stage asking people to pay. You don't play an instrument. You want people to pay to hear what's in your mind. You don't have low self-esteem. You might have other problems.
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Crazy, Mind, Play

A weird sort of awareness set in, like, 'Wow. My standup isn't just separate from everything else I do anymore.' With Twitter and Face book, everything is universal that everything everybody says gets seen.
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Book, Everything, Else

Everybody says before reviews come out, 'Oh, reviews don't matter,' just in case they're bad; everyone want to brace themselves.
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Bad, Before, Everyone

Everybody's funny in different ways.
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Funny, Different, Everybody

Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.
Colin Quinn

Humor, Different, Sense

For the most part, comedians are pretty friendly with each other. They always say they badmouth each other, but most of the time, they're friends. We're the only ones that can really stand our type of humor.
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Humor, Time, Friendly

He is very dry but also very funny... I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.
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Funny, Good, Person

I always wanted to write as much as perform.
Colin Quinn

Wanted, Write, Perform

I don't know any comedian who tailors his act to his audience. Maybe people say they do, but I can't even imagine them.
Colin Quinn

Act, Maybe, Audience

I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it.
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Alone, Strong, Human

I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your wit.
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Reason, English, Impression

I like guy stuff.
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I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself.
Colin Quinn

Love, History, Whatever

I think everyone should own six guns, even though I don't own any.
Colin Quinn

Everyone, Though, Guns

I think Helen of Troy must have been pretty hot. She got two countries going crazy for 10 years over her.
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Crazy, Two, Pretty

I think I identify more with the smart guy, but most people might take umbrage at that. I like to think of myself as a real thinker, but I suppose people might beg to differ.
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Smart, Real, Might

I think if you try to tailor your act to anybody, you end up with an act that doesn't work anyway.
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I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.
Colin Quinn

Good, Person, Place

I was a class clown.
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I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you couldn't be a comedian.
Colin Quinn

Work, Almost, Cynical

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.
Colin Quinn

Love, Time, Poetry

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: June 6, 1959

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