It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out. Marc Maron More Quotes by Marc Maron More Quotes From Marc Maron God doesn't seem to talk to people like he used to. Who's he talking to now? I don't know. Then I'm walking down the street in Manhattan one day, and I realize maybe it's those guys you see walking down the street talking to themselves. You know, those guys that are like, 'I can't! No, I can't!' Maybe the other side of that conversation is God going, 'You're the new leader.' 'No I can't!' They're not crazy - they're reluctant prophets. Marc Maron crazyhumorfunny Everyone is a little bitter. We're born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex defense mechanism. A reaction to the first time someone said, "No you can't. Marc Maron defensepersonalitylittles Dogs are too much to handle. I don't need anything in my house that's needier than me. Marc Maron doghouseneeds For my next trick I will make everyone understand me. Marc Maron nexthumorfunny 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? Marc Maron humortalkingfunny Left wing, right wing, I am wingless and tired of trying to fly. Here comes the ground. Marc Maron tiredwingseurope What comics sacrifice and what lives they live - I know that most of their lives, their adult lives, they're sitting around or walking around with notebooks, writing things down. Usually they're fairly sensitive. Usually they're very bright. And that makes them poets. Marc Maron notebooksacrificewriting Art is supposed to punch you in the brain, and it's supposed to stay punched. Marc Maron art-isbrainart You know when you make popcorn there are always those fluffy white kernels that are fun and good to eat but there are also always those burnt, black kernels that don’t pop. You know why they don’t pop? Because they have integrity. Marc Maron whitefunintegrity There's this whole post-modern, nuevo beatnik, retro-bohemian thing going on, you know what I mean? You walk into some coffee shops, and it feels like you're an ex-patriot in Paris in the 20s. You're like, 'Hey, isn't that a young Ernest Hemingway over there? Yeah, I think it is! Hey, let's go have a look and see what he's writing... It's a Gap application.' Marc Maron coffeewritingfunny Your insecurity and neediness is what makes you a big neurotic ball of comedy genius. Marc Maron insecurityballsgenius I've had this look for about a year. I usually grow this beard out around Christmas. I like to go to malls dressed as Jesus, and I like to then walk around the mall and go, 'No! No! This wasn't what it was supposed to be about, people!' Then if there's a Santa at the mall, I walk up to him and say, 'Listen, fat man, you're just a clown at my birthday party.' Marc Maron partyfunnyjesus We live in an age where people are like, "I'd love to catch up. Maybe text me later? But don't call because I don't really listen to my messages. But if you text me..." We've displaced interaction into sound bites and untethered phrases and sentences that come up on the phone as Twitter feed. Marc Maron phonesagepeople You get all excited to give her the ring, and it's real emotional, and you give it to her, and she cries. And a second later, you're like, 'Damn, I could have had a car.' Marc Maron humorrealfunny 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. Marc Maron takencollegeyears Once I learned how to talk, personally, by myself to any number of people, which means do radio without talking to anyone in particular on the air - I just found that my brain became very free to engage in a sort of stream-of-consciousness style of doing what I do. Marc Maron airnumbersmean The medium of podcasting and the personal nature of it, the relationship you build with your listeners and the relationship they have with you - they could be just sitting there, chuckling and listening... there's nothing like that. Marc Maron podcastingsittinglistening In my life, I didn't get into comedy to be - I had no business model. All I wanted to do was, basically, finish becoming myself. And you stand in front of people and be seen and heard in this format. I thought it was the most practical format for me to express whatever it was I was going through. Whatever my ideas were in my evolving philosophy about life. I obviously don't sell out theaters. I'm not a household name. I'm not incredibly consistent in terms of doing the same act over and over again, and I'm definitely working out a lot of my existential issues onstage. Marc Maron work-outphilosophypeople People who have babies tell me I will know a love that is beyond anything I can imagine, and a joy that is indescribable. Love and joy? That sounds horrifying. I have no way of knowing whether I can handle either of those. I'm much better with need and fear. They are what ground me. Marc Maron knowingbabypeople They are not testing comics for drugs. If our job is dependent on that, there would be three working comics in the country, and two of them would have puppets. Marc Maron jobsfunnycountry
