A lot of people think I'm difficult to work with. It's not like I really want to do that much stuff, so it doesn't really matter. I guess I'm somewhat difficult when it comes to comedy. Norm MacDonald More Quotes by Norm MacDonald More Quotes From Norm MacDonald I'm not original, but I strive toward it as much as possible. I tried really hard on Weekend Update to do something that I considered original, which was, I tried to cut all cleverness out of the joke. Norm MacDonald updatesweekendcutting There's that saying, "I don't know art, but I know what I like." The inverse is kind of true. I know art, but I don't know what I like. You get so immersed in it that nothing appeals to you. Norm MacDonald kindi-like-youart Love is an artful arrangement of artless pretensions, whereby we labor to appear innocent in what we desire to be most cunning. Norm MacDonald innocentdesirelove When I started in Canada, I just did stand-up. Norm MacDonald canada There's no show business in Canada, so everybody just did stand-up and we all thought, "Oh, we'll just keep doing stand-up." And then I'm like, "There's more work in the States." Norm MacDonald canadastatesshows I would love to stay at SNL forever. But you can't stay in the same place. People think you're a loser. Norm MacDonald foreverpeoplethinking I never had any interest in sitcoms or motion pictures or anything like that. Norm MacDonald motion-picturessitcominterest Louis [C.K.] is great. But I don't know how many you could do. Norm MacDonald know-howknows In love, first please the eye, then win the heart. Norm MacDonald eyeheartlove It's a very odd thing with Hollywood, where you do stand-up, you're good at it, then they go, "How would you like to be a horrible actor?" Then you say, "All right, that sounds good. I'll do that." Norm MacDonald odd-thingshollywoodsound Whenever I do theaters, I don't like 'em. I don't think they're right for stand-up. Norm MacDonald emstheaterthinking Few criminals die sensible of their crimes. Norm MacDonald criminalscrimesensible We are often less grieved at disappointments than at ourselves for having said much concerning the certainty of our expectations. Norm MacDonald disappointmentexpectationssaid We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion. Norm MacDonald delusionflatteryconceit It is the folly of weak-minded people, to imagine they are what flattery or conceit represents them; and that it is useless for them to be what they are not, since they seem already to have acquired the reputation of it. Norm MacDonald reputationuselesspeople None seem to bear the imputation of supposed guilt with greater intolerance than such as are, on other occasions, obviously culpable of vice or crime. Norm MacDonald guiltvicesbears Jealousy seldom punishes with the severity it suffers. Norm MacDonald severityjealousysuffering A capacity for hating the object of desire is, perhaps, the best cure for love in cases of disappointment. Norm MacDonald hatedisappointmentlove As evacuation eases the body, so occasional ejectment of passion seems to appease the agonies of the soul, and dispose to tranquility the agitations of the heart. Norm MacDonald agonypassionheart There is a very prevalent tenet with youth, that good company is every thing desirable, and that bad is even better than none. Norm MacDonald good-companycompanyyouth
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