I don't hate anybody. My character is one thing, but me as an individual is completely different. Larry the Cable Guy More Quotes by Larry the Cable Guy More Quotes From Larry the Cable Guy I pretty much live on my tour bus.I do well around 300 shows a year. A lot of times I will do two shows a night. Larry the Cable Guy nighttwoyears I don't have a lot of recreation time. I've always been under the assumption that if you're selling tickets you need to work. The kind of success that's happened to me maybe only happens to one comedian every twenty years and so I'm on the road constantly. Larry the Cable Guy comediantwentiesyears Sanford is a little redneck town north of Orlando. It's right off Lake Jessup.Lake Jessup is the most alligator infested lake in the United States and I live literally 5/10ths of a mile north of that lake right off the swamp down here. I've lived here since '94. When I left Nebraska my dad got a job at a private Christian school in West Palm Beach. People will say "You're not really a country boy. You're from Palm Beach, Florida." Well, I moved to West Palm Beach, FL which is a far cry from Palm Beach, FL. There's a reason it's called West Palm Beach. Larry the Cable Guy christianbeachcountry I was always getting in trouble because I was the class clown but I always made teacher laugh. I remember I thought I was going to fail that class but I ended up passing it and I really think it was only because I was good entertainment for her. Larry the Cable Guy classteacherthinking My dad was a non-denominational preacher, actually a Congregationalist which is really where all congregations come to congregate. That's why it's called a Congregationalist. Later on in life, he just became a non-denominational preacher, kind of a fire and brimstone type guy. That's how I grew up. Larry the Cable Guy dadguyfire I'm defending free speech pretty much all over the place because you still have freedom of speech. Larry the Cable Guy free-speechfreedom-of-speechspeech I was scared into being good. But I'm sure I did regular kid stuff. Larry the Cable Guy scaredstuffkids As I get older, the character evolves tremendously because I'm married and have kids now and realize certain things are not funny anymore. I threw them out of my act. Larry the Cable Guy marriedcharacterkids I have thick skin. I'm not a baby. Nothing really offends me. If there's something I think might offend me, I don't listen to it. Larry the Cable Guy skinsbabythinking I was obsessed with livestock barns, cattle and hogs. I still love that, and I still do that as a hobby.So I'm a strange person. Larry the Cable Guy strange-personbarnshobbies When you're doing comedy, it is so subjective. What is funny to you is not funny to another person. What is dirty to you is not dirty to the other person. Comedy is one of those things you throw against the wall and see what sticks. Larry the Cable Guy wallsticksdirty When you're married with kids, you just think differently. Larry the Cable Guy marriedkidsthinking I have a basic theorem as to how I do my jokes. Growing up, I knew when to cross the line and when not to cross the line. It's the same with my comedy. I know what my audience will take and how much they won't take. I can't give you a formula for it. It's my own personal formula inside my head. Somebody else's might be different. Larry the Cable Guy growing-updifferentgiving Some guy came up to me with his kids, ages probably 10 and 12, and said that the reason he likes me is because he sat through an hour and twenty-minute show, and I didn't cuss one time. So it just really depends. Larry the Cable Guy guyagekids I can have different opinions with anybody. I can still be a friend with that person. Larry the Cable Guy opiniondifferentpersons I get so sick and tired of Wikipedia. People write their own crap on there. Larry the Cable Guy tiredwritingpeople I hate flying. I'm not a big fan of flying at all so everywhere I go I go by tour bus. If I have to fly I will but I'm not a big fan of it. Larry the Cable Guy flyingfanshate I don't know why people get so bent out of shape over stuff people say. Larry the Cable Guy shapesstuffpeople I grew up on a pig farm in southeast Nebraska. When I started doing the Blue Collar Tour, I thought it was kind of funny because I faked my accent, so everybody thought I lived in an apartment somewhere. But I grew up on a pig farm. Larry the Cable Guy nebraskabluepigs I don't think every joke has to be so dadgum cerebral. I mix it up really good, because that's the kind of humor I like. I like the goofy one-liner type stuff. Larry the Cable Guy goofystuffthinking
