I think I know how to raise a kid. You just play catch with ’em. You just talk about life, and you distract them by throwing the ball. They don’t even notice that you’re filling up their heads with your theories.
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More Bill Burr Quotes
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It’s a whole new world as far as getting a show on the air. There’s good things and bad things.
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[I’m] more German than Irish.
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I used to think you had to live this miserable life and that that would make you funnier, but you don’t. The misery will come. The misery will find you.
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As much as Metallica rocked, they always had these song names… ‘The Thing That Shouldn’t Be’. ‘The Chair That Wasn’t There’, you know?
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There is no reason to hit a woman. And I was just like, really? I could give you, like, 17 right off the top of my head.
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It’s been a dream to work with Netflix because they don’t have any pressure from advertisers.
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Like most comics, I tried to come up with a sitcom idea that was based around my life. And it didn’t work out. But maybe because it didn’t work out, that’s why I ended up on ‘Breaking Bad;’ I don’t know.
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You know, it wasn’t even that I’m a funny guy, I just loved stand-up comedy and I wanted to do it. It was one of the few things in my life that I knew I was going to be able to do, and I also felt as though I’d be able to do it the way I wanted to do it.
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Ric Flair is the greatest guy ever. He just wants to hang out, have a beer, and tell stories. He’s the coolest. I’ve never met The Rock though.
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Out of nowhere comes this speeding camouflaged golf cart and this guy starts yelling at me, ‘What do you think you’re doing!’ The guy wrote my name down and began to follow me before I got really scared and took off as fast as I could.
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If this goes into sweatshop labor, I’m quitting this podcast.
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Your twenties is all about taking your childhood out on everyone that you run into.
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I am so pro-swine flu it’s – it’s like ridiculous.
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What are they worried about? Nobody ever walked into a show as a bleeding heart liberal and had a comedian undo 30 years of life experience.
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If you try to deliver a funny line in a funny way, it comes out as wacky and you ruin the scene.
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