Marc Maron Quotes

• Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah.

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• In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special.

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• I’m sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I don’t regret any of it.

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• I’m not completely sure we aren’t all living in a hallucination now.

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• I was also a big Woody Allen fan. When I got into college I listened to Lenny Bruce but it’s taken me years to put him into context historically and really get what he did.

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• I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.

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• I think seeing Pryor’s first movie, Live In Concert, when I was in high school changed my life. Pryor really put the heart in darkness for me.

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• I didn’t know that people compared Bill Hicks and I but certainly I’m flattered if they do. I knew Bill a bit. We had dinner a couple of times and played guitar together once. I really tried to keep my distance from him professionally.

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• Hopefully standup will become special again.

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• Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you’re one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?

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• For my next trick I will make everyone understand me.

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• Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do.

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• As a performer you are being used to keep people watching so the commercial endorsements that support the network can be seen by as many people as possible.

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Birth:	27th September, 1963
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Comedian

About

Marc David Maron has been host of The Marc Maron Show and co-host of both Morning Sedition and Breakroom Live, all politically oriented shows produced by Air America Media. He hosted Comedy Central's Short Attention Span Theater for a year, replacing Jon Stewart. Maron has been a frequent guest on the Late Show with David Letterman and made more than 40 appearances on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, more than any other standup performer.

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