Jim Gaffigan Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I've always wanted to be an actor. I've never planned on the acting and the stand-up feeding each other; they've always been separate desires.”

“No one goes into standup to make money. The frustration and rejection are just too much.”

“There's something about being a parent that has, I think, made me a better comedian.”

“I don't know, I find that honestly, the stand-up thing in some ways is a little bit of a cliche to carry around, because people don't consider stand-ups really actors.”

“I worked on 'USA Today' as a topic for while. I tried to do something on hand chairs, chairs that look like hands. I really tried. But some topics are not truly universal.”

“I'm an eccentric, silly, observational guy, but I'm not gonna frighten off social conservatives.”

“I'm closer to Bob Newhart than Rodney Dangerfield.”

“I was the youngest of six kids, so yeah, feeding myself was important, but it's not like I was obsessed with food growing up.”

“I would say some of the food I talk about that I really enjoy, like cake and bacon, I eat a lot less than I portray in my act. But that stuff that I dislike, it's pretty sincere.”

“There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.”