Brooklyn Quotes
I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn, and I consider myself lucky and blessed to be where I am - just working.
I live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why.
I represent Staten Island and Brooklyn, and not just that the financial services industry is important to the U.S., but is disproportionately important to New York City.
I can't work in Brooklyn. Unless I'm completely locked away in a studio, there's just too much distraction and stimulation.
Your technique means nothing if you're not using your talents for the betterment of humanity.
Most women had the one thing in common: they had great pain when they gave birth to their children. This should make a bond that held them all together
Men were good for one thing only. Killing spiders. Other than that, I was on my own. It was sad though. Where was the chivalry of yesteryear?
I had to say it gave me a warm feeling to picture Meredith Winslow spending twenty years or so in an ill fitting orange jumpsuit, cozying up to a great big girl named Beulah
He'd once explained that when he was a boy his very proper parents had forbidden him and his brothers to curse in the house so 'feather buckets' was the young boys coded way of saying 'f*ck it
I had a blind date with a dentist — and he told me to come back in six months.
People say it is not the key to happiness, but I have always figured if you have enough money you can have a key made.
I said, "Is there!" I told him there is a Mafia school where they teach them math — if Johnny has ten fingers and they cut off two, how many does he have left?
Somehow, some way, every person in the arts has to find an accommodation with disappointment and embarrassment. They are the pollen in the air we breathe.
Laughing made me feel safe. I was not going to be enveloped by the seediness that coated this world like dust.
I am driven. Being driven is my energy source. It is my fun.…I believe that where there is action, there is movement, and those ripples will eventually produce something positive.
The revelation that personal truth can be the foundation of comedy, that outrageousness can be cleansing and healthy…
The act of creation fascinates me. You can only sit with blank page and wait. You cannot press a button, cannot program it.
Everything comes out of smoke and mist and nothingness, a mystical happening…
Liked" was the kiss of death. "Loved" or "hated" interested him. At least the performer had aroused emotion.
Maybe that is why in my comedy I try and puncture the hypocrisy all around us, why it is almost a crusade with me to strip life down to what really is true.
…but I think comedy is more aggressive than that. It is a medium for revenge. We can deflate and punish the pomposity and the rejection which hurt us. Comedy is power.
…you either do or do not have a comedy mind, whatever that is, maybe a heightened sense of the ridiculous and the absurdity of life…We are all crazy and crazed.
Even the worst things about Devonairre Street are better than the rest of the city.
We’re all a little broken, on the sidewalk. On the street. In the city.
They pine for the hip, frosty girlfriend they abandoned for a pleasant if unexciting marriage to her sunnier, less mentally present sister coast.
His laugh and his voice were both pleasant. He talked the way New Yorkers used to talk before they learned to talk Flatbush.
Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students.
It happened every single day in Brooklyn: awaken to fresh glory, fall asleep to blight and ruin.