Colin Quinn Quotes

• Everybody says before reviews come out, ‘Oh, reviews don’t matter,’ just in case they’re bad; everyone want to brace themselves.

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• Everybody’s funny in different ways.

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  Tags in Different

• Everybody’s got a different sense of humor. It’s just different styles.

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  Tags in Different, Styles

• I always wanted to write as much as perform.

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  Tags in Wanted, Write

• He is very dry but also very funny… I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it’s not a good place for you to be.

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  Topics in Funny

  Tags in People, Feel, Person

• I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can’t sustain it.

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  Tags in Empires, Human, Pretty

• I don’t know any comedian who tailors his act to his audience. Maybe people say they do, but I can’t even imagine them.

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• I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your wit.

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  Tags in Reason, Impression

• I write all the time – I write poetry, I love to write.

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  Tags in Poetry, Write

• I think Helen of Troy must have been pretty hot. She got two countries going crazy for 10 years over her.

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  Tags in Crazy, Pretty

• I think everyone should own six guns, even though I don’t own any.

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  Tags in Think, Everyone

• I think if you try to tailor your act to anybody, you end up with an act that doesn’t work anyway.

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  Topics in Work

  Tags in Think, Anybody

• I’m always working on stuff. But they never materialize. I’m always working on movies and TV shows.

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  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Working, Never

• If I had to give up everything else and keep just one aspect of the job, I’d have to keep writing because I love it. Yes, I enjoy performing, too. But I couldn’t give up writing material.

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  Tags in Writing, Enjoy, Material

• I’m just another guy who thinks he’s smarter than he is, in a long line of them.

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  Tags in Long, Thinks

• I’m quietly becoming New York’s premiere actor. People don’t understand. They have me pigeon-holed as a comedian.

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  Tags in Understand, Actor, Comedian

• I’ve been to Japan, I’ve been to China, I’ve been to Africa, I’ve been to the Middle East, I’ve been to Europe a little bit. I’ve never been to South America.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Little, Self

• People’s – most people’s job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It’s not even paper.

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  Topics in Future

  Tags in People, Present

• It was tumultuous, it was crazy, but I would not trade it for anything.

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  Tags in Crazy, Anything

• Marie Antoinette was funny, I’m sure she was just misinterpreted. You know the ‘Let them eat cake’ line. She seems like she was kind of funny, like a Chelsea Handler or Kathy Griffin type.

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  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Kind, Sure

Colin Quinn (33)

Birth:	6th June, 1959
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Comedian, Producer, Screenwriter, Television Presenter

About

Colin Quinn was born in Brooklyn, New York. He is an American stand-up comedian, actor and screenwriter, TV producer and TV presenter. On television he is best known for his work on Saturday Night Live, Remote Control and Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn. He wrote for In Living Color, and co-wrote and produced the movie Celtic Pride, which starred Damon Wayans and Dan Aykroyd. His stand-up was also used in the animated series Shorties Watchin' Shorties. In 2004, Quinn was named No. 56 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 greatest stand-up comedians of all-time.

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