Quotes & Jokes by Doug Stanhope / page 19
Life gave you lemons and you turned it into golden showers. God bless you for that.
The acid I did in my twenties alone: I don't want to see the kind of baby this sperm is waiting to create.
Artists who say that they're artists: usually people who need a job.
I don't know. Both my parents are dead. So? Wait, I got pictures of their corpses in my wallet. I had them blown up as murals. Here.
America doesn't exist; it's just dirt that has fucking lines drawn around it. Old guys put lines on it at one point. It's all fucking dirt.
I had jobs that were as short as an hour and a half. One was putting circulars into newspapers, and I worked at it for 90 minutes before I said “I’m going to the bathroom” and never came back. I never spent a lot of time at a boring job. I’d either quit, or I’d try to make it fun and they would try to fire me. When I worked for a collections agency, I’d fuck with people until it became like a Jerky Boys routine. My bosses would tell me, “You’re still supposed to get the money from them.”
Humor is something men have to develop when they don’t have other skills to attract women. It’s a form of plumage that we’ve developed naturally as animals. Women don’t have to do that. You never hear a guy say, “Yeah, the first thing I want in a woman is that she’s gotta be funny.” Women aren’t funny as a rule. It’s just far more rare.
I immediately split the crowd. I thought about coming on every night and shouting, "Gay pride, white power!" just to confuse people.
Babies are like poems. They're beautiful to their creator, but to other people, they're silly and they're irritating.
I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasn't particularly good looking. Comedy was something I could do for attention.
You should laugh everywhere you can find even the slightest glimmer of humour.
High definition ruined a lot of things that I used to hold sacrosanct in pornography.
I've had some bad shows where I just sucked, but I've had some assholes, too. Some guy stood up Saturday night and said 'This is the same shit you've been peddling the last five times you've been here.' That's your biggest fear: someone who knows every word you've ever said.