You have to understand how bad I wanted to be a comedian, how much I loved doing it. I still can’t believe I get to do this for a living and have people come up and want to see me.
BILL BURRMy favorite kind of humor is basically, if it was happening to you, it wouldn’t be funny, but to observe it, it’s hilarious.
More Bill Burr Quotes
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[I’m] more German than Irish.
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I was painfully shy when I was younger but at some point you’ve gotta grow up. I think the genius in the man-boy thing is you tap into a woman’s motherly instincts.
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Like when I finally got away from the east coast for a while, and I came back there was just this underlying anger that I never noticed before, because I was born there and just dropped right into it.
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I don’t think people know what hygienist means.
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I do my podcast on Mondays for a specific reason. A lot of people go to work and don’t like their jobs. If you give people something to laugh about, it’s good.
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I’ve had a great time on the road, I would say shooting guns with a silencer in Jacksonville, Fla.
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Everyone should just drive out to the Mojave Desert and just experience it, and it’s a fun place to live.
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London was like that too. It was that time of year when all the rich kids with the oil money have their cars shipped over.
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When you say, “there’s no reason [to hit a woman]” that kills any examination as to how two people ended up at that place. When you say, “there’s no reason,” you cut out the build-up and you’re just left with the act. How you gonna solve it if you don’t figure it out?
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To me this is not yelling. I am not yelling. I’m just passionate about my opinions and I want to tell you all of them before you start talking again.
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Business runs hot and cold so the more you’re in charge of your own destiny, the better off you are.
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Being a comedian is an incredible thing, but it can be scary sometimes.
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I am so pro-swine flu it’s – it’s like ridiculous.
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Your twenties is all about taking your childhood out on everyone that you run into.
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So many people there are in politics that they’re overly cautious about laughing at stuff. They’re so damned concerned about what everyone else is thinking.
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