Latest Jim Jefferies Quotes from Interviews

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• I have tried reading the Bible but that's a tough read there. I watch a lot of religious documentaries. I have a keen interest in religion for someone who's not religious.

  Jim Jefferies

  Religious, Reading, Documentaries

  Source: www.complex.com

• I don't think I've ever prayed in my entire life, never sat and had an imaginary chat with God.

  Jim Jefferies

  Thinking, Sat, Imaginary

  Source: www.complex.com

• I was 13 when I was started questioning and 16 when I stopped believing in God.

  Jim Jefferies

  Believe, Believe In God, Questioning

  Source: www.complex.com

• As for basic jokes about sex and even my religious stuff, I don't find any problems with that, even if I'm gigging in the Bible Belt, because religious people don't come and see me.

  Jim Jefferies

  Religious, Sex, People

  Source: www.complex.com

• Every comedian is just doing the comedy they find funny. This is me and it's not clean in any way. I could get a lot more work on TV playing clean but it's never interesting.

  Jim Jefferies

  Interesting, Comedian, Way

  Source: www.complex.com

• I think only things that are personal to us offend us. It's always bizarre when people who would normally laugh at an AIDS joke won't laugh at a cancer joke, but far more people know somebody who's died from cancer.

  Jim Jefferies

  Cancer, Thinking, Laughing

  Source: www.complex.com

• Before doing stand-up, I thought acting was easy - it's not easy. It's a hard life. It's easy in its own way, you just stand there and talk. But there is a difference between people who can do it well and people who can't.

  Jim Jefferies

  Differences, People, Hard Life

  Source: www.portlandmercury.com

• I can't imagine being a woman in the world of acting, like where you age starts to weigh you down - you go from being attractive to where they [directors] decided you're out... I feel like with stand-up comedy, it doesn't matter if I've gotten fatter.

  Jim Jefferies

  Acting, Age, Directors

  Source: www.portlandmercury.com

• Having your own show, where you're not in trouble all the time, because you're kind of the boss, is a wonderful experience. If I made mistakes everyone was very nice to me.

  Jim Jefferies

  Mistake, Nice, Boss

  Source: www.portlandmercury.com

• In the stand-up comedy top, there's room for everyone - if you're good, there's room for everyone. You'll put on your own show - no one casts you. You cast your own show as a stand-up comedian. When you get good at stand-up comedy you book a theater and if people show up, people show up. If people don't show up, people don't show up. You don't have a director or a casting agent or anybody saying if you're good enough - the audience will decide.

  Jim Jefferies

  Book, People, Comedian

  Source: www.portlandmercury.com

• With acting, it [auditioning] is very frustrating. I'm not very good at auditions. Sometimes I audition for a role and I'm like, I'd be really funny in that role, but I'm not good at auditions so I guess I'm not getting that role. It's a very frustrating job.

  Jim Jefferies

  Jobs, Acting, Roles

  Source: www.portlandmercury.com

• I don't write my standup on paper or anything; but I just organically do it on stage, have an idea, chat it up a little bit. I'm keeping notes. I'm trying to keep up with this world and try to bring out a special every year.

  Jim Jefferies

  Writing, Ideas, Years

• There are two types of actors. There's the actors who can acknowledge that they could never do standup comedy. Then there's the pretentious ones, who believe that acting is harder than standup comedy. I definitely don't think it is. I also think making a comedy is substantially harder than making a drama.

  Jim Jefferies

  Drama, Believe, Thinking

  Source: tvmegasite.net

• I wouldn't mind gigging around the same era as Jesus, after he gives his speech about the meek and how blessed they are and all that type of bullshit, going up there and doing a flat 20 [minutes]. I reckon I'd have better stagecraft and presence than Jesus. Yea, I'm a better stand-up comedian than Jesus, so I reckon I could go on after him.

  Jim Jefferies

  Jesus, Blessed, Bullshit

  Source: manofmany.com

• There's two types of hecklers. If someone says something really funny it's normally them heckling as part of the show. They're trying to add onto one of your jokes. If someone says something really funny, I've never seen a comedian abuse them, you always sort of tip your hat a little bit if they nail it.

  Jim Jefferies

  Two, Abuse, Comedian

  Source: manofmany.com

• I wouldn't perform in front of the Nazis. I hear they didn't take freedom of speech too well. It would be a fun gig to rip into them, but I don't think the ending would be great for me.

  Jim Jefferies

  Fun, Rip, Thinking

  Source: manofmany.com

• There's a lot of guys up there who like wearing a suit or try doing jokes that they think will play to a certain crowd, or maybe get them corporate work. I've always written jokes that I would want to hear. So, I'm trying to entertain myself more than anything.

  Jim Jefferies

  Thinking, Play, Guy

  Source: manofmany.com

• Stand-up is just me trying to be as funny as possible in the most concentrated hour with me standing on stage with no storyline, no plot line, and no character development.

  Jim Jefferies

  Character, Plot Lines, Trying

  "LEGIT - the New FX Series! Interview with Jim Jeffries". Interview with Jeri Jacquin, patch.com. February 05, 2013.

• I've never been the type of guy that had a lot of friends or was part of the cool group.

  Jim Jefferies

  Guy, Groups, Lots Of Friends

  "Jim Jeffries and Peter O’Fallon Talk Going Legit!". Interview with a group of journalists and bloggers, eclipsemagazine.com. January 30, 2013.

• Because of the way I've made my money or the way I've conducted myself in public to get success, it doesn't make me any better a person. So I always thought money and achievement would make me a more legitimate person, where my family seems to think it's all about actions.

  Jim Jefferies

  Thinking, Achievement, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I definitely think the formula to making my character seem sweet is to let him act like a jerk, give him a redeeming moment, and have a sweet song playing over the background when it happens.

  Jim Jefferies

  Song, Sweet, Character

  Source: www.avclub.com

• No matter how successful I got, my mother still thinks I'm a bad person, basically.

  Jim Jefferies

  Mother, Successful, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I want to make people think, and I don't want to come across like I am egotistical or that I want to change people's thoughts. I don't believe that as a comic I can convert anyone's opinion. I think I can maybe make someone look in one direction or the other but I can't make a religious person stop believing in God.

  Jim Jefferies

  Religious, Believe, Thinking

  Source: montrealrampage.com

• I always wanted to be a comedian. I loved comedy since I was a little kid, and while I was at university I started doing stand up shows. Once I realized that I was good at it I quit college and left although I had six months left. I went to England. I could have done the last six months but I realized that I was better at standup comedy than I was at singing opera.

  Jim Jefferies

  Kids, College, Singing

  Source: montrealrampage.com

• I don't want people to leave the show being upset. So if I am trying to do a new joke, and sometimes I will talk about things like gun control or hostile massacre and I notice people being upset I will change the direction.

  Jim Jefferies

  Gun, People, Upset

  Source: montrealrampage.com