Quotes & Jokes by Jerry Seinfeld / page 8

You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.

I went up to the camp and Paul had me eat my first oyster I had never had an oyster in my life. And he convinced me to eat one. And it was horrible and it was exciting. And I thought, this will be gross and I'll have a story: I had my first oyster with Paul Newman.

Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.

I do not know why anyone would host an awards show. No matter how unbelievably well you do at it, the only thing that can happen is you get asked again to host an awards show.

I don't wanna be a Pirate!

Dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them's making a poop, the other one's carrying it for him, who would you assume is in charge.

Cry when you get a Golden Globe. Then you can get an Oscar nomination.

The worst thing about television is that everybody you see on television is doing something better than what you're doing. You never see anybody on TV just sliding off the front of the sofa, with potato chip crumbs all over their shirt.

See, you know how to take the reservation, you just don't know how to hold the reservation and that's really the most important part of the reservation, the holding. Anybody can just take them.

The IRS! They're like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

I have a nice bookshelf in my office, but not my house. I'm crass, but not that crass.

I like definitive things.

But after they settle in you've still got to be funny, because for an hour just the fact they get to see you live in a theater is going to wear off if you're not doing well.

I can walk through a hotel lobby and watch people at the desk and see what they're doing. People don't look at me. They don't even know I'm there.

When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.