The toughest nights when I was a young, unknown comedian were opening for these real old-time Italian singers. I’m like Grace Jones to them. “This guy is nuts-talking about socks. Where’s the wife jokes, where’s the fat jokes?”
JERRY SEINFELDThis is one of my big things of creative pursuits. You have your idea you want to do, but then you got to figure out what does this thing want to be? You got to let it lead you a little.
More Jerry Seinfeld Quotes
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Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there’s no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door.
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Wise is what you want to be. Smart is easy compared to wise.
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You know the message you’re sending out to the world with these sweatpants? You’re telling the world, ‘I give up. I can’t compete in normal society. I’m miserable, so I might as well be comfortable.
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Dogs have no money. Isn’t that amazing? They’re broke their entire lives. But they get through. You know why dogs have no money? .. No Pockets.
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Your blessing in life is when you find the torture you’re comfortable with.
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I can’t go to a bad movie by myself. What, am I gonna make sarcastic remarks to strangers?
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The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it’s so much fun.
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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.
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Surveys show that the #1 fear of Americans is public speaking. #2 is death. That means that at a funeral, the average American would rather be in the casket than doing the eulogy.
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I was the best man at the wedding… If I’m the best man, why is she marrying him?
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I love how you just make coffee and then somehow something gets done.
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There’s more to life than making shallow, fairly obvious observations.
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Most people, you do a TV series, it ends three, four, five years later; it’s a relic.
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If airline seat cushions are such great flotation devices, why don’t you ever see anyone take one to the beach?
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The best revenge is living well.
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