Marc Maron Quotes

We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice.
Marc Maron

Freedom, Children, Choice

There are also always those burnt, hard kernels at the bottom that don't pop. You know why they don't pop? They don't pop because they have integrity.
Marc Maron

Integrity, Hard, Why

Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?
Marc Maron

Themselves, Realize, Talking

I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now.
Marc Maron

I'm sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I don't regret any of it.
Marc Maron

Great, Sad, Battle

As a performer you are being used to keep people watching so the commercial endorsements that support the network can be seen by as many people as possible.
Marc Maron

Keep, Used, Support

Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do.
Marc Maron

Matter, Personal, Comedy

For my next trick I will make everyone understand me.
Marc Maron

Understand, Everyone, Next

Hopefully standup will become special again.
Marc Maron

Special, Become, Again

I didn't know that people compared Bill Hicks and I but certainly I'm flattered if they do. I knew Bill a bit. We had dinner a couple of times and played guitar together once. I really tried to keep my distance from him professionally.
Marc Maron

Together, Him, Guitar

I think seeing Pryor's first movie, Live In Concert, when I was in high school changed my life. Pryor really put the heart in darkness for me.
Marc Maron

Life, School, Live

I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.
Marc Maron

Inspired, Taste, Performers

I was also a big Woody Allen fan. When I got into college I listened to Lenny Bruce but it's taken me years to put him into context historically and really get what he did.
Marc Maron

In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special.
Marc Maron

Great, Special, Name

Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah.
Marc Maron

Business, Hard, Living

It may have lost its special-ness forever and the clubs might not being doing well but I think standup is in the best shape it has been in a long time.
Marc Maron

Time, Best, Long

It seems people are more willing to let other people control their minds now and recreational drug use doesn't seem to have that same renegade sense of adventure that it once did.
Marc Maron

Control, Same, Sense

It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out.
Marc Maron

Integrity, Easy, Buy

Jerusalem Syndrome is actually a rare psychological condition that occurs to some visitors to the Middle East. They get to Israel and just snap.
Marc Maron

Actually, Israel, Middle

Left wing, right wing, I am wingless and tired of trying to fly. Here comes the ground.
Marc Maron

Tired, Trying, Here

On some level any appearance on Television can be seen as a product endorsement.
Marc Maron

Seen, Television, Level

Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along.
Marc Maron

Business, Ego, Him

Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.
Marc Maron

Morality, Cultural, Induced

The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine - 100s of words a day.
Marc Maron

Words, Makes, Wasting

The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming.
Marc Maron

Easy, Create, Television

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Entertainer

Born: September 27, 1963

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