Somehow, it was so happy a time. Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it. Colin Quinn More Quotes by Colin Quinn More Quotes From Colin Quinn The mistake that people make in stand-up is thinking they're profound or they're deep when there are so many people who have more worthwhile ways of phrasing things. Colin Quinn mistakepeoplethinking People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same. Colin Quinn boringchangepeople Well... you know, I would wake up with a terrible hangover in a jail somewhere and worst part was that I would not know why I was there. Colin Quinn hangoverwake-upjail It was tumultuous, it was crazy, but I would not trade it for anything. Colin Quinn tradecrazy What I love about comedians is their instinct is always to go against the grain. Their whole existence is pointing out the elephant in the room. Already you can see audiences are pushing back, but we're the ones who really can take it more than anybody. Colin Quinn instinctexistencecomedian I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself. Colin Quinn studypeoplelooks People say history was written by the winners. No, it wasn't. It was written by the bullies. Colin Quinn winnerbullypeople A weird sort of awareness set in, like, 'Wow. My stand-up isn't just separate from everything else I do anymore.' With Twitter and Face book, everything is universal that everything everybody says gets seen. Colin Quinn wowcomedianbook I think if you try to tailor your act to anybody, you end up with an act that doesn't work anyway. Colin Quinn tailorstryingthinking For the most part, comedians are pretty friendly with each other. They always say they badmouth each other, but most of the time, they're friends. We're the only ones that can really stand our type of humor. Colin Quinn typecomedianfriendly New York Stat agreed to pay $12 million to settle a lawsuit filed three decades ago by inmates swept up in the bloody 1971 revolt at Attica prison. The settlement will be paid in the form of chocolate bars and packs of Newports that can be picked up in the commissary. Colin Quinn chocolatethreenew-york 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. Colin Quinn funnypeoplethinking 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. Colin Quinn japaneuropeamerica With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs. Colin Quinn comedianunderstandinglaughing I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write Colin Quinn writing The only people who like to live alone more than comics are priests. Colin Quinn priestspeople I always wanted to write as much as perform. Colin Quinn wantedwriting I'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial. Colin Quinn superficialbigsactors Everybody says before reviews come out, 'Oh, reviews don't matter,' just in case they're bad; everyone want to brace themselves. Colin Quinn bracesmatterwant That’s the beauty of being a comedian: it’s the one job you’re allowed to do that. We’re lucky. We’re really lucky. Colin Quinn comedianluckyjobs
