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Marc Maron Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I have a very primitive sense that if I just turn on a radio or the television, that somebody's playing that stuff for me.
I once talked about wanting to kill myself, but I don't think I was ever really planning on doing it. It was just comforting to know that I could.
There are also always those burnt, hard kernels at the bottom that don't pop. You know why they don't pop? They don't pop because they have integrity.
I'm weird; I have a very strange emotional memory. I really somehow hold on to even passing moments with people.
I sort of get tired of myself sometimes. When you're busy, your life becomes relatively small. But I never get tired of talking to other people.
He doesn't have anything like wisdom of age or hindsight. He's a biased historian of self, an emotional revisionist. We all are, for the most part.
He does have that weird mixture of born again Christian and stupid that some people mistake for courage and focus.
I need to complicate everything to protect myself from success and to remain complicated and overwhelmed. I
The truth is, I can't read anything with any distance. Every book is a self-help book to me. Just having them makes me feel better.
If you have a handlebar mustache, that is pretty much all you are. You are a delivery system for a handlebar mustache.
Jokes do finish themselves. I really do see them as ongoing conversations about personal themes that I ruminate on.
Well, evolution's just a theory.' And, I'm thinking to myself, 'Well, thank goodness gravity's a law.'
Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do.
Conversation is a beautiful thing. When I was a younger guy, just wandering around talking to people was what kept me connected to the world.
I don't seek controversy. I don't seek to antagonize. Sometimes it happens, but I'm not there to argue politics.
In most cases the only difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.
Maybe depression is the most reasonable response to all the crap around us. Maybe it's the happy people who need medication.
I knew most of my radio listeners were lefty political people, and I decided definitively not to be that guy - not to address politics.
Comics seemed to have a handle on things. They could sort of disarm and get control over reality. I found it very comforting to laugh.
I think seeing Pryor's first movie, Live In Concert, when I was in high school changed my life. Pryor really put the heart in darkness for me.
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?
Buying my wife a gun sort of like me saying, ' You know, I kinda want to kill myself, but I want it to be a surprise'.
There's something to be said that if everyone likes something there's gotta be something fucking wrong with it on some level. Unless it's ice cream.
I used to do a lot of drugs. I didn't stop because I didn't enjoy them; I stopped because I couldn't handle the commitment.
I just wanted to be a good comic and had no sense of show business, but at some point you want the opportunity to write a show about your life.
I don't make a list of questions. Ever. I think a lot of my interviews are driven by my need to feel connection.
I always thought I was funny, but I was very sensitive, and very provocative just to get a rise out of people.
The worst thing about living in this world, in general, is that things get overwhelming, and things cause a tremendous amount of despair and anxiety.
I'm not against people just being funny or telling stories. I don't need to delve into the soft, dark core all the time. If it happens, it happens.
I think sharing experience makes everything better. When people get talking about how they've overcome something or how they haven't, it's nourishing.
That's the big challenge of life - to chisel disappointment into wisdom so people respect you and you don't annoy your friends with your whining.
I've become less angry and a little more humble by age and by experience and by going through the ups and downs of life.
The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive.
Because we're comics and we pass each other on campus, we know of each other, and a lot of the time there's a mutual respect there.
There's nothing more horrifying than the possibility or the idea that you will just fade away into obscurity.
I'm sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I don't regret any of it.
The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming.
I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.
I'm happy, certainly, given the times we're living in, to be doing OK, and to not be worrying about money, and to be producing something I enjoy.
It's great to have people come out. I do worry, though. They know me very intimately, in a way, if they listen to my show; they know a lot about me.
There's something about cats' self-sufficiency and their seemingly individualistic ways that I find compelling.
It's amazing how much you can rationalize when you're on drugs. I could actually say to myself, Look, I'm only doing blow Wednesday through Saturday.
I'm glad to be part of the war on sadness. I'm a part time employee of the illusion that keeps people stupid.
Jerusalem Syndrome is actually a rare psychological condition that occurs to some visitors to the Middle East. They get to Israel and just snap.
Americans don't understand irony? I am an intelligent person living in the United States. My entire existence is ironic.
I don't care what anybody says, I think that George Bush is absolutely the right president to oversea the end of the world.