Latest Lewis Black Quotes from Interviews

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• There's no reason to tweet when you are in the midst of a great moment; they are few and far between. So pay attention to it, as you probably won't see it again. You can always tweet later, if you're lucky enough to be part of history and you think 140 characters can do credit to someone like Martin Luther King or to the speech he made that day.

  Lewis Black

  Character, Thinking, Lucky

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• I have never thought of my entertainment as being able to bring about social change. I am seriously always looking for the laugh. What it did make me conscious of was having empathy for those without any power in this country. That has always stuck with me.

  Lewis Black

  Country, Laughing, Empathy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• I can pretty much guarantee that if I do a show in a comedy club, there will be someone who will come out of the audience and tell me the worst joke ever. It's just a guarantee.

  Lewis Black

  Guarantees That, Clubs, Comedy

  "Lewis Black Is No Judge Judy". Interview with Nick Baumann, www.motherjones.com. March 11, 2008.

• I think inevitably over the course of my lifetime there's been an underestimation of the American people, and I believe they are really the ones that give me hope. There's so much of "they don't know this, and they don't know that," and they're always denigrating.

  Lewis Black

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "Lewis Black Is No Judge Judy". Interview with Nick Baumann, www.motherjones.com. March 11, 2008.

• Stupidity really gets me going, when it's just plain stupid, obvious stupidity. And I think that's the reason my act has become more political. I've become somewhat more of a political comic because the level of stupidity I've watched is staggering.

  Lewis Black

  Stupid, Thinking, Political

  "Lewis Black Is No Judge Judy". Interview with Nick Baumann, www.motherjones.com. March 11, 2008.

• I never write anything down. I write onstage.

  Lewis Black

  Writing

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, www.avclub.com. June 7, 2006.

• When you're done [with writing a book], people tell you "Well, gee, I'm not interested." "Great, I'm glad I sat down and wrote this!"

  Lewis Black

  Book, Writing, People

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, www.avclub.com. June 7, 2006.

• I love anything that gets me outside of my own head. I love music because it's really just - I tried to play piano as a kid. I was awful. It didn't help, and this is absolutely true, that my piano teacher had arthritis. And that's not a good way to learn.

  Lewis Black

  Teacher, Kids, Play

  "Lewis Black on the things he'll always love". Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. February 15, 2010.

• I do like Guinness, I have to say, because you feel like you're eating something.

  Lewis Black

  Eating, Like You, Feels

  "Lewis Black on the things he'll always love". Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. February 15, 2010.

• I was a drinker, so I went through the scotches. Before single malts hit, there were really cheap scotches, because nobody was paying attention to them. Then by the time they started jacking those prices up, I moved on to vodka.

  Lewis Black

  Scotch, Moved On, Attention

  "Lewis Black on the things he'll always love". Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. February 15, 2010.

• The reason I like socialism is that it's kind of enforced Christianity. It's basically very Christian, in the sense of "do unto others as you would have them do unto you." These people have nothing, so you have to share.

  Lewis Black

  Christian, People, Kind

  "Lewis Black on politics, aging, and being the guy who yells". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2012.

• There's a whole group of Christians who believe the individual is more important, but in the end I don't think that's what Christ was talking about.

  Lewis Black

  Christian, Believe, Thinking

  "Lewis Black on politics, aging, and being the guy who yells". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2012.

• This is the thing I've never understood: If someone is going to hell for being gay or being a Jew or a Muslim or having an abortion, then what are you worried about? You don't need to try and convert these people or try and save them. If you really believe in your religion, these people are already doomed, so stop worrying about them.

  Lewis Black

  Believe, Gay, Worry

  "Lewis Black on politics, aging, and being the guy who yells". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2012.

• I was broke until I was 40. Really broke. I could get by, but I had nothing. No health insurance, so if something happened I was screwed. I was lucky my parents had money and my brother was willing to support me for a long time. Once I started doing standup, I had an income, and that was amazing to me.

  Lewis Black

  Brother, Long, Parent

  "Lewis Black on politics, aging, and being the guy who yells". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2012.

• I can be drunk until 6 in the morning, and then I don't have to show up to work until 14 hours later.

  Lewis Black

  Morning, Drunk, Hours

  "Lewis Black on politics, aging, and being the guy who yells". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2012.

• I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not. So it's hard for me to come up with things, because I don't write stuff, I don't write my act down.

  Lewis Black

  Writing, Stuff, Odd

  Interview with Ben Munson, www.avclub.com. October 3, 2011.

• I've always been a social network retard, even before there was a social network. People would say, "You want to go to this party and do some networking?"

  Lewis Black

  Party, People, Want

  Interview with Ben Munson, www.avclub.com. October 03, 2011.

• It's amazing what I could've written in my life if I had realized that I should keep writing and not masturbating.

  Lewis Black

  Writing, Should, Written

  Interview with Ben Munson, www.avclub.com. October 3, 2011.

• Going up to Canada is great because I'm not dealing with people carrying their agendas into the room. I'm lucky because 97% of the people who come to the show know who they are dealing with, whether they are on the left or the right, we're sharing the same frustration.

  Lewis Black

  Frustration, People, Agendas

  "Interview: Lewis Black, new special, "In God We Rust," premieres midnight tonight on Comedy Central". Interview with Tom Lewis, www.scpr.org. September 7, 2012.

• In Canada I'm not dealing with people who are bringing in baggage, they just get it. But New Orleans will be a bit different. If there's a group of people who have a right to be bitter, it's the people of New Orleans.

  Lewis Black

  New Orleans, People, Different

  "Interview: Lewis Black, new special, "In God We Rust," premieres midnight tonight on Comedy Central". Interview with Tom Lewis, www.scpr.org. September 7, 2012.

• A lot of the times I'm looking at something that I discover is part of a larger framework and not just a couple jokes. I see that it's a set, a story that I'll be telling. Sometimes I get lost in that.

  Lewis Black

  Couple, Stories, Sometimes

  "Interview: Lewis Black, new special, "In God We Rust," premieres midnight tonight on Comedy Central". Interview with Tom Lewis, www.scpr.org. September 7, 2012.

• I'd like the campaigning to be about all the things they're not going to do. Just tell me what you're not going do! Don't tell me what you're going to do. Just say "I'd really like to do solar energy but I'm not going to be able to. I really want to dig holes everywhere in the country but I really won't be able to do it because people seem to think that maybe my water will be screwed up."

  Lewis Black

  Country, Thinking, Water

  Interview with Tom Lewis, www.scpr.org. September 7, 2012.

• None of this seems to affect the leadership, that people don't go out to vote, that they don't feel the need to go vote, that they already feel disenfranchised. It's not just Obama's fault or Clinton's or whomever's, it's all of them, the whole collection of clowns I've had to sit through.

  Lewis Black

  People, Needs, Faults

  Interview with Tom Lewis, www.scpr.org. September 7, 2012.

• The tortoise moves very slowly, it moves towards whatever the goal is, to keep a democratic capitalistic society functioning.

  Lewis Black

  Moving, Goal, Tortoises

  Interview with Tom Lewis, www.scpr.org. September 7, 2012.

• I think you have to [vote] and the reason you have to go vote is an important one, and that is because the day you vote is the day that you will feel the most ineffectual you will feel all year.

  Lewis Black

  Thinking, Years, Important

  Interview with Tom Lewis, www.scpr.org. September 7, 2012.