Greg Fitzsimmons quotes
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“Driving around with a receding hairline and two kids in a Prius feels a bit boring for me.”
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“I feel life is to be lived. You want to spend your time doing things and being with friends and all that.”
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“The compulsion to do the opposite of what you are told does not lend itself to many occupations outside the entertainment industry. Within the industry, it is unlikely that you will be very successful without it.”
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“There's so many ways to do stand up, and I think, for awhile, people weren't really maximizing the freedom of it. We were all kind of doing a similar kind of stand up, and I started to see some original voices come out of Boston.”
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“Same thing every year, getting up at the crack of dawn, drinking, fighting, throwing up, pissing on walls and then you leave the house and things get bad.”
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“I was just in Las Vegas, where prostitution is legal. Which is a relief because I live in Los Angeles, where it is mandatory.”
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“Somebody stole my identity. Good luck using it without the medications.”
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“My grandfather is from Ireland. His name is Florence McCarthy. He moved to New York in 1920. They used to beat him up because his name was Florence. He had to switch his name to Frank. And then this Christmas, he made an announcement - he goes, 'I'm switching me name back to Florence.' And we beat him up, 'cause it's a dumb name and he's old and weak and it was easy.”
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“I feel like I am too old to eat jelly. But I am too young to eat prunes. I am between grapes.”
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“I've finally been able to trust and have intimacy with somebody, which I've never been able to do. Like a lot of guys, I just have a hard time getting that connected. I can actually sleep with her in my arms - spoons position, right? Women smile, they love the spoons. Men would rather fork.”
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“Don't be like me. Look at me: monogamous, in shape, no debt, sober... I'm dead inside.”
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“Debt means you had more fun than you were supposed to.”
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“Ever see a skinny guy on a cold day? You know they tremble like Chihuahuas. Then you see a fat guy in a tank top - nine degrees, he's sweatin'. Look at 'Titanic,' remember the boat goes into the icy cold waters? Little skinny Leonardo: dead. Final scene, Kathy Bates on a rowboat, coat open, eating a hotdog.”
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“Taking down the Christmas tree makes it feel official: time to get back to joyless and cynical.”
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“If we don't have souls then who am I talking to when I keep telling myself to be good?”
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“I called my grandmother yesterday. She picks up the phone, 'Oh hello, dear, hold on a second, I just stepped out of the shower. Let me go put some clothes on.' I said, 'Hey Grandma, don't ever tell me you're naked again. Go put a lot of clothes on. Then put some more clothes on. I'm going to sit here and drink and try to forget you naked in my head.' I'll never eat raisins again.”
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“Lieutenant Governor Paterson - blind, black guy - gets sworn in. First thing he says is, 'By the way, cheated on my wife. Let's just get that out in the open right now.' He didn't need to admit that. He's blind. Could have said it was an accident.”
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“They just tested the tap water in Los Angeles and they found traces of estrogen and antidepressants in the tap water. So it's nice to know my son's going to grow up and have huge breasts but it's not going to bother him that much.”
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“If you want to find guys with small penises, go to the Hummer dealership.”
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“Rescuing dogs is looked upon as a noble, trendy pursuit. But wouldn't rescuing a man from a homeless shelter be, in fact, more humane?”
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“I have to stop watching the Olympics. It just reminds me that I forgot to try really hard at something.”
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“They say men have a sexual thought every 20 seconds. The other 19 are shame.”
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“If you want to stop two people from having sex, let them get married.”
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“I enjoy writing the same way I enjoy doing standup. Part of the challenge is being creative and making it work no matter what the constraints.”
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“It's an amazingly consistent thing with Irish people. We will talk to strangers at parties for hours. It's what we were bred to do I think. And the Jewish people were bred to write the stuff that we say.”
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“Trickle-down economics - it didn't work. The whole idea was supply-side economics: give rich people a lot of money; they'll spend it, it'll go into the economy. Here's what we found out - rich people, really good at keeping all the money. That's how they got rich. If you want it in the economy, give it to the poor people. You know what they're really good at? Spending all their money.”
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“I'm kinda stuck in that awkward in-between stage where my hair is just starting to fall out, but I'm still maintaining my youthful acne.”
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“The most interesting nerds are the ones who take offense to being called nerds.”
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