Quotes & Jokes by Colin Quinn / page 3

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.

You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There's no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you're finished. It's impossible to predict anything.

I was a class clown.

With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.

I'm just another guy who thinks he's smarter than he is, in a long line of them.

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

You can't make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody.

If it had just been some femme fatale, I think this whole thing could have been settled. You know, if it had just been like a beautiful woman.

It was tumultuous, it was crazy, but I would not trade it for anything.

I like guy stuff.

I always wanted to write as much as perform.

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

You can't make money on Broadway. You make nothing. You maybe make like $1,350 a week after you pay out all the producers.

The mistake that people make in stand-up is thinking they're profound or they're deep when there are so many people who have more worthwhile ways of phrasing things.

We battled well and it was an excellent win.