Quotes by
Lenny Bruce |
1925-1966 , American comedian
American stand-up comic and social satirist during the 1950s and early ’60s. Although public authorities increasingly denounced his performances as dirty and sick and courts across the United States tried him for obscenity, Bruce was widely esteemed by artists and intellectuals and, after his death, emerged as a cultural icon among advocates of free speech. | 16 quotes | 2,868 visits |
Quotations
| • | Life is a four letter word. 5 |
| • | The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds. 5 |
| • | If something about the human body disgusts you, the fault lies with the manufacturer. |
| • | There are never enough “I love you’s”. |
| • | Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. |
| • | Liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them. |
| • | If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish. |
| • | The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour, they'll take you away, man. You can't |
| • | The whole motivation for any performer is “Look at me, Ma”. |
Funny Quotes
| • | I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like “What I'm Going to be If I Grow Up”. 5 |
| • | My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her. 4 |
| • | Miami Beach is where neon goes to die. |
| • | If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. |
| • | Children ought to watch pornographic movies: it's healthier than learning about sex from Hollywood. |
| • | Alright, let’s admit it, we Jews killed Christ – but it was only for three days. |
| • | Faith is to the human what sand is to the ostrich. |
