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.
JERRY SEINFELDDogs 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.
More Jerry Seinfeld Quotes
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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 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?”
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I always did well on the essay questions. Just put everything you know on there, maybe you’ll hit it.
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There are more social skills required to talk one-on-one [than to an audience]. You don’t have to be socially fluid to talk to two thousand people.
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[I like to] engage with funny people, or weird people, or, you know, kind of off people. [Whereas when I meet] anybody who’s … normal … I’m not curious, I’m not interested.
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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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That’s why breakups take two or three times- to build up immunity.
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If I want a long, boring story with no point to it, I have my life.
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I love how you just make coffee and then somehow something gets done.
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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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Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.
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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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Most people, you do a TV series, it ends three, four, five years later; it’s a relic.
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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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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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