Maron's Quotes

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. — Marc Maron

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. — Marc Maron

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. — Marc Maron

I was married once before, and I stopped. — Marc Maron

I'm weird; I have a very strange emotional memory. I really somehow hold on to even passing moments with people. — Marc Maron

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. — Marc Maron

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. — Marc Maron

I live in Los Angeles, I know it exists. I know you're not supposed to taste air. — Marc Maron

Art is supposed to punch you in the brain, and it's supposed to stay punched. — Marc Maron

He does have that weird mixture of born again Christian and stupid that some people mistake for courage and focus. — Marc Maron

When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate. — Marc Maron

I need to complicate everything to protect myself from success and to remain complicated and overwhelmed. I — Marc Maron

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. — Marc Maron

My dad is actually a manic depressive, which is very exciting half the time. — Marc Maron

If you have a handlebar mustache, that is pretty much all you are. You are a delivery system for a handlebar mustache. — Marc Maron

Your insecurity and neediness is what makes you a big neurotic ball of comedy genius. — Marc Maron

Jokes do finish themselves. I really do see them as ongoing conversations about personal themes that I ruminate on. — Marc Maron

Well, evolution's just a theory.' And, I'm thinking to myself, 'Well, thank goodness gravity's a law.' — Marc Maron

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. — Marc Maron

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. — Marc Maron

In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special. — Marc Maron

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. — Marc Maron

Dogs are too much to handle. I don't need anything in my house that's needier than me. — Marc Maron

The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming. — Marc Maron

I get very cranky when interrupted. I snap at people, sigh dramatically and slam my door shut. — Margaret Maron

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. — Marc Maron

Faith in the face of disappointment is only enhanced by laughter in the face of pain. — Marc Maron

On some level any appearance on Television can be seen as a product endorsement. — Marc Maron

My bullshit was that I adore you and I don't have fingers or eyes how to deal with it. — Rick Shapiro

Left wing, right wing, I am wingless and tired of trying to fly. Here comes the ground. — Marc Maron

There's nothing more horrifying than the possibility or the idea that you will just fade away into obscurity. — Marc Maron

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. — Marc Maron

The way I figure it, if you can't tell I'm high by looking at me, I win. — Marc Maron

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. — Marc Maron

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. — Marc Maron

There's a fine line between cultural criticism and bitterness. — Marc Maron

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. — Marc Maron

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. — Marc Maron

I didn't really want to kill myself, it just made me feel better to know I could if I wanted to. — Marc Maron

It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out. — Marc Maron

You hope to see an arc of growth in your ability to become a character on television. — Marc Maron

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. — Marc Maron

The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive. — Marc Maron

I think the reason Jesus is so popular, just on a celebrity level, is that he died at the peak of his career. — Marc Maron

When you're young you really think you're angry for reasons and causes. As you get older, you realize you might just be angry. — Marc Maron

I don't care what anybody says, I think that George Bush is absolutely the right president to oversea the end of the world. — Marc Maron

Americans don't understand irony? I am an intelligent person living in the United States. My entire existence is ironic. — Marc Maron

What you don't know about your parents is what becomes fascinating as you get older. They — Marc Maron

Jerusalem Syndrome is actually a rare psychological condition that occurs to some visitors to the Middle East. They get to Israel and just snap. — Marc Maron

I'm glad to be part of the war on sadness. I'm a part time employee of the illusion that keeps people stupid. — Marc Maron

I'm proud to be part of a generation where reading is a 'look.' — Marc Maron

The next evolutionary step is into the screen. — Marc Maron

I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now. — Marc Maron

There's something about cats' self-sufficiency and their seemingly individualistic ways that I find compelling. — Marc Maron

Get yourself in a situation where you have no choice. — Marc Maron

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. — Marc Maron

I think things evolve into jokes. I don't generally write them down as jokes. I talk them out. — Marc Maron

Most of my comedy writing happens through improvisation on stage; doing it in the moment. — Marc Maron

I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired. — Marc Maron

I look at every book as a self-help book. — Marc Maron

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. — Marc Maron

A woman's body doesn't quit just because her heart breaks. — Margaret Maron

I don't seek controversy. I don't seek to antagonize. Sometimes it happens, but I'm not there to argue politics. — Marc Maron

I'm not for everyone. I'm barely for me. — Marc Maron

In most cases the only difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment. — Marc Maron

You can't avoid pain in life. It's how you handle pain, that's what defines you. — Marc Maron

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. — Marc Maron

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. — Marc Maron

Hopefully standup will become special again. — Marc Maron

But then again, what do I know. I project. Then I judge. — Marc Maron

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'. — Marc Maron

The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine - 100s of words a day. — Marc Maron

When I was a young kid I loved Don Rickles, Buddy Hackett and Jackie Vernon. — Marc Maron

Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation. — Marc Maron

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. — Marc Maron

I always thought I was funny, but I was very sensitive, and very provocative just to get a rise out of people. — Marc Maron

For my next trick I will make everyone understand me. — Marc Maron

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

Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah. — Marc Maron

I don't make a list of questions. Ever. I think a lot of my interviews are driven by my need to feel connection. — Marc Maron

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. — Marc Maron

We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice. — Marc Maron

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. — Marc Maron

I knew most of my radio listeners were lefty political people, and I decided definitively not to be that guy - not to address politics. — Marc Maron

Maybe depression is the most reasonable response to all the crap around us. Maybe it's the happy people who need medication. — Marc Maron

God, I'm a girl with a cursed fate. I've fallen in love with a boy and I want to be happy. — Arina Tanemura