Quotes by Sam Kinison

About Sam Kinison:

Samuel Burl was an American stand-up comedian and actor. He was known for his intense, harsh and politically incorrect humor. A former Pentecostal preacher, he performed stand-up routines that were most often characterized by an intense style, similar to enthusiastic preachers, punctuated by his trademark scream.
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

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Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.

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I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry.

Sam Kinison

It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there.

Sam Kinison

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Sam Kinison

Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth.

Sam Kinison

Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'

Sam Kinison

I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn't coming back.' They started throwing Bibles.

Sam Kinison

If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.

Sam Kinison

Jim Bakker. He's lost everything, he's ruined. And the worst thing of all he still has to wake up to her!

Sam Kinison

So many people counted on me to be the party, I had to move far enough away that they wouldn't want to drive there.

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I'm responsible. I even did a commercial for MTV saying how I was going to register to vote. And I still haven't.

Sam Kinison

I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild.

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I'm a comedian, and my comedy has never endorsed violence towards gays.

Sam Kinison

So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.

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I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.

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Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I'm out there promoting some anti-gay cause.

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AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.

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Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.

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I'm not going to give up the shock part of my comedy.

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Author Bio

  • NameSam Kinison
  • DescriptionAmerican comedian
  • BornDecember 8, 1953
  • DiedApril 10, 1992
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor