Colin Quinn Quotes - Page 2

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• New York Stat agreed to pay $12 million to settle a lawsuit filed three decades ago by inmates swept up in the bloody 1971 revolt at Attica prison. The settlement will be paid in the form of chocolate bars and packs of Newports that can be picked up in the commissary.

  Colin Quinn

  New York, Chocolate, Three

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• I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it.

  Colin Quinn

  Strong, Russia, Hands

  Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. August 31, 2010.

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• You know, the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that, you can go over one million things, but in a business of bean counters, he still likes to laugh at small things and creates a show around it.

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  Funny, Laughing, Likes

  "Interview: Colin Quinn picture". www.askmen.com.

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• Marie Antoinette was funny, I'm sure she was just misinterpreted. You know the 'Let them eat cake' line. She seems like she was kind of funny, like a Chelsea Handler or Kathy Griffin type.

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  Funny, Cake, Lines

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• Well... you know, I would wake up with a terrible hangover in a jail somewhere and worst part was that I would not know why I was there.

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  Hangover, Jail, Wake Up

  "Colin Quinn Irish Comic Standing". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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• It was tumultuous, it was crazy, but I would not trade it for anything.

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  Crazy, Trade

  "Colin Quinn...Irish Comic Standing". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• What I love about comedians is their instinct is always to go against the grain. Their whole existence is pointing out the elephant in the room. Already you can see audiences are pushing back, but we're the ones who really can take it more than anybody.

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  Comedian, Instinct, Existence

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I've been to Japan, I've been to China, I've been to Africa, I've been to the Middle East, I've been to Europe a little bit. I've never been to South America.

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  Japan, Europe, America

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• Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.

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  Style, Different, Sense Of Humor

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• I always wanted to write as much as perform.

  Colin Quinn

  Writing, Wanted

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. June 18, 2003.

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• I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write

  Colin Quinn

  Writing

  "Colin Quinn Irish Comic Standing". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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• Everybody says before reviews come out, 'Oh, reviews don't matter,' just in case they're bad; everyone want to brace themselves.

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  Want, Matter, Braces

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• The only people who like to live alone more than comics are priests.

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  People, Priests

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• For the most part, comedians are pretty friendly with each other. They always say they badmouth each other, but most of the time, they're friends. We're the only ones that can really stand our type of humor.

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  Comedian, Friendly, Type

  The A.V. Club Interview, tv.avclub.com. August 31, 2010.

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• Everybody's funny in different ways.

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  Funny, Different, Way

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• Somehow, it was so happy a time. Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.

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  Addiction, Comedy

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. June 18, 2003.

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• I'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial.

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  Actors, Superficial, Bigs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm quietly becoming New York's premiere actor. People don't understand. They have me pigeon-holed as a comedian.

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  New York, People, Comedian

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• I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself.

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  People, Looks, Study

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• That’s the beauty of being a comedian: it’s the one job you’re allowed to do that. We’re lucky. We’re really lucky.

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  Jobs, Comedian, Lucky

  "Colin Quinn On Brad Pitt, Herman Cain, Comedy And Twitter". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 5, 2011.

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• My name has zero value.

  Colin Quinn

  Zero, Names, Values

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• I'm always working on stuff. But they never materialize. I'm always working on movies and TV shows.

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  Tv Shows, Stuff, Tvs

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• I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.

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  Funny, Thinking, People

  "Colin Quinn...Irish Comic Standing". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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• People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even paper.

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  Jobs, Talking, People

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• Stand-up is live, so I'm used to being live for most of my career. It's interesting.

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  Careers, Interesting, Used

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