Artie Lange Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“I wish I was this dark genius artist - like Richard Pryor or something.”

“It's good to be alive.”

“Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.”

“To tell you the truth, I always wanted to be a sketch comedian and a comedy actor.”

“To tell you the truth, there are all these websites predicting my early death, and it's starting to work on me!”

“Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine. Like, if Jerry Seinfeld wasn't funny, you'd want to punch him in the face; he'd just seem like a whiner to you. But the fact is that he's funny.”

“It's weird because standup can be like therapy. Comedians can't be satisfied with just having fun with our friends. We've got to figure out a way to do it on stage.”

“People are so nice, you know. It's such a credit to Howard Stern - the audience base that he created is such a special thing. It took him a long time to create this family of fans, and I was lucky to be a part of that for a while.”

“When I became a standup comic, my hero, one of them, was Richard Pryor, and you know, I think that comedians, like, comedians talk about hacks, and what a hack is, is someone who does stuff that's not original.”

“When you did impressions on 'MADtv,' the producers gave you a Walkman that played huge sections of whatever movie was being parodied, with your character's catchphrases recorded on a loop. You'd wear this thing around during rehearsals and for a week listen to the voice you had to impersonate over and over again. It drove all of us crazy.”