Latest Stephen Colbert Quotes from Interviews

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• You've gotta understand what Putin's strategy is. He really doesn't like democracy. He thinks it's an inconvenient, messy process. And he doesn't like us, and he wants to destabilize our country; sow doubt about our democracy.

  Stephen Colbert

  Country, Thinking, Doubt

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• I don't think anybody can with a straight face say that the Russians did not set out to influence our election, and they did so.

  Stephen Colbert

  Thinking, Election, Influence

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• A lot of people have said, "Oh, I, boy, I wish Hillary Clinton would just go away."

  Stephen Colbert

  Boys, People, Wish

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• I actually do not think that's how what's happening to our government is going to be stopped. I think people who are willing to be civically engaged and believe in the promises and the progress of the last fifty years that will save this country.

  Stephen Colbert

  Country, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• I began my day as I often begin my days, by checking Donald Trump's Twitter feed to see how far the crazy has spread. And today, I really think he's off his meds, because today he went from crazy to cruel.

  Stephen Colbert

  Crazy, Thinking, Today

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• Usually when Donald Trump wants to keep someone out of military service, he just fakes a doctor's note saying he has a foot injury. It worked fine for him during Vietnam.

  Stephen Colbert

  Military, Fake, Injury

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty. People love the president because he's certain of his choices as a leader, even if the facts that back him up don't seem to exist. It's the fact that he's certain that is very appealing to a certain section of the country. I really feel a dichotomy in the American populace. What is important? What you want to be true, or what is true?

  Stephen Colbert

  Country, People, Choices

  Source: tv.avclub.com

• Improvisation in general is good, and improvising material into themes, turning the material into something codified and repeatable, taught me scenic structure and dramatic gambits that work and things that are appealing both as a performer and an audience member, like you know, what does "want" really mean in a scene, and how do you achieve your want, and how is that expressed, and how do you achieve closure? Those are all things that I learned performing at the cabaret after just doing the same scenes over and over and over again over the years, with my own ability to change.

  Stephen Colbert

  Mean, Closure, Dramatic

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I'm proud of my ability to understand what somebody else is trying to do and help them achieve it, because part of the aesthetic of improvisation is service. You never say no. Serve the servant, follow the follower. And that's very valuable in your life, as well as very valuable in your actor's work. I'm damn proud of my ability to help other people achieve their ideas.

  Stephen Colbert

  Helping Others, People, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

• The interesting thing about fake news and fake media is that it's a heresy against reality. Again, as a Catholic, I was taught that the greatest sin was heresy. Because not only are you a sinner, you are proselytizing and inviting other people into your sinful state through your heresy. You're a recruiter for your own fallen state. Donald Trump is a heretic against reality. Basically, he's lying for sport. He's inviting people into his heresy that there is no objective reality.

  Stephen Colbert

  Sports, Lying, Reality

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• People would say, "Oh, you say you just do jokes." I don't just do jokes. I do jokes. Jokes are important. They saved my life when I was younger. Hopefully we're making things nicer at the end of the day for people. That's the entire goal, and that's the touchstone and the North Star for the tone.

  Stephen Colbert

  Goal, People, Important

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• Donald Trump, yes, he's somebody's little boy. But he is his ideas because his ideas are what's going to affect us. As a man, he can do very little. But his ideas could kill us all.

  Stephen Colbert

  Boys, Men, Little Boys

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• Cynicism is an enormous problem. I'm actually a hopeful person. But the way to stay hopeful is to acknowledge and to not accept what is absolutely amoral, mentally ill behavior as normal.

  Stephen Colbert

  Hopeful, Problem, Cynicism

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• Trump will not respond to reasoned argument. He will not be held accountable for the things he said. All you can do is point and laugh. Because the devil cannot abide mockery.

  Stephen Colbert

  Laughing, Devil, Argument

  Source: www.elle.com

• You have to do your First Penance before your First Holy Communion. You're really young. What do you know? You've got nothing to confess. All I knew was that I was an evil human whose sins caused the death of our Lord.

  Stephen Colbert

  Evil, Sin, Lord

  Source: www.elle.com

• I don't know a lot about politics. I like talking about human behavior. Politicians are funny to me because they often say one thing and behave a different way.

  Stephen Colbert

  Different, Politician, Behavior

  Source: www.elle.com

• If I ever succumbed to the demon on my shoulder going, "You should get something special because you're famous," that is the moment that my behavior will be caught on social media for all time. I'm even afraid to use it to get a reservation. This is the person who will tweet, "Can you believe what this a-hole did?"

  Stephen Colbert

  Believe, Special, Social Media

  Source: www.elle.com

• There was sort of a negative association with the military. Maybe growing up in the South or being in a family with members of the military, I didn't have that negative connotation, but I did have this 'separate' connotation. I was ashamed to realize I had it and did not realize I had it until I was [in Iraq]. I was so impressed by the people I met over there and there was just a sense of connection and gratitude towards those people.

  Stephen Colbert

  Gratitude, Growing Up, Military

  Source: www.wbur.org

• There is a residual sense for me, having grown up in the early '70s, that I did not know I had, which was a sense that the military are different than I. Because there was such a divide between the military world - and there still is, because there's no draft - and the civilian world is one of the rotten harvests of the Vietnam War, was this sort of bifurcation of America in that way.

  Stephen Colbert

  Military, War, America

  Source: www.wbur.org

• I tell a lot of young performers, 'Go get in trouble. Go commit yourself to something you're not sure you can do.' And I followed my own advice.

  Stephen Colbert

  Advice, Trouble, Young

  Source: www.wbur.org

• If you're a perfectionist and you know you're about to do something at which you cannot be perfect, then that is daunting because you know what your heart is like and the way you approach your work.

  Stephen Colbert

  Heart, Perfect, Way

  Source: www.wbur.org

• I imagined myself living in New York in some sort of open, large but sparse studio apartment with a lot of blond wood and a futon on the floor and a bubbling samovar of tea in the background and a big beard - living alone but with my beard - and doing theater. That's what I thought my life would be.

  Stephen Colbert

  New York, Tea, Would Be

  Source: www.wbur.org

• What I rediscovered was the therapeutic nature of singing lessons. They're like doing yoga but for [the] inside of your body. You open up and use muscles that you don't think of as malleable.

  Stephen Colbert

  Yoga, Thinking, Singing

  Source: www.wbur.org

• Donald Trump is a strong president. We got to stand behind this guy is what I think.

  Stephen Colbert

  Strong, Thinking, Guy

  Source: www.npr.org

• One day,I might be able to tell my grandkids I interviewed the last president of the United States.

  Stephen Colbert

  One Day, President, United States

  Source: www.slate.com