Latest Norm MacDonald Quotes from Interviews

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• I don't have to meet actors. I'm really blessed that I don't have to do all that horseshit.

  Norm MacDonald

  Blessed, Actors

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

• I got my computer. The great thing about the computer is that you only need enough money to buy a computer and some food, and you're all right. I don't have to go to premières.

  Norm MacDonald

  Needs, Computer, Enough

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

• I don't have any ambition.

  Norm MacDonald

  Ambition

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

• I hate fame. I hate being recognized, because I don't know how to talk to people.

  Norm MacDonald

  Hate, People, Fame

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

• I completely understand why a businessman would fire me from 'Saturday Night Live'. Because he was seeing Jay Leno kill 10 minutes a night, doing his monologue with wall-to-wall laughs and applause, then I do 10 minutes a week to, sometimes, breathtaking silence. He's just listening for the laughs.

  Norm MacDonald

  Wall, Night, Fire

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

• When people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.

  Norm MacDonald

  People, Accepted, Audience

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I've shown people Richard Pryor who've never seen him, and most of them don't like him.

  Norm MacDonald

  People

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

• [sam] Kinison, when he started out, he'd come to Canada when I was first starting, and he'd always [bomb].

  Norm MacDonald

  Bombs, Canada, Firsts

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Richard Pryor is my favorite stand-up ever.

  Norm MacDonald

  My Favorite

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

• I tried to make the punchline as close to the setup as I could. And I thought that was the perfect thing. If I could make the setup and the punchline identical to each other, I would create a different kind of joke.

  Norm MacDonald

  Perfect, Different, Kind

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

• On Update, the only real original thing was trying to take away the cleverness of the punchline and make it as blunt as possible.

  Norm MacDonald

  Real, Trying, Updates

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

• I'm not original, but I strive toward it as much as possible. I tried really hard on Weekend Update to do something that I considered original, which was, I tried to cut all cleverness out of the joke.

  Norm MacDonald

  Cutting, Weekend, Updates

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

• I've always been very averse to innuendo, especially sexual. I find it cowardly or something.

  Norm MacDonald

  Innuendo, Cowardly

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

• There's that saying, "I don't know art, but I know what I like." The inverse is kind of true. I know art, but I don't know what I like. You get so immersed in it that nothing appeals to you.

  Norm MacDonald

  Art, I Like You, Kind

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

• There hasn't been an original voice in stand-up since Sam Kinison.

  Norm MacDonald

  Voice, Originals

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

• I guess [Richard] Pryor was that good. I never saw him in a theater, but I imagine he was that good, because he was such a phenomenal actor.

  Norm MacDonald

  Actors, Saws, Imagine

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I've been in theaters. Like Brian Regan, who I love - loved him so much more when he did the Improvs. And then in a big theater - nobody's that good.

  Norm MacDonald

  Theater, Bigs, Brian

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

• I've seen people in theaters, and it just doesn't work, because you're talking to the guy next to you the whole time.

  Norm MacDonald

  Talking, People, Guy

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

• I generally have a real strong idea or a strong punchline, and I just try to get to it by rambling around, as I don't like to memorize words.

  Norm MacDonald

  Strong, Real, Ideas

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

• I can't be naturalistic enough to make it sound real. So instead, I just wander around aimlessly knowing that I'll be funny enough with stream of consciousness until I get to the actual explosively funny part.

  Norm MacDonald

  Real, Knowing, Sound

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

• Louis [C.K.] is great. But I don't know how many you could do.

  Norm MacDonald

  Know How, Knows

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Generally I don't like traveling around saying the exact same thing. I don't think that's a very good thing to do with your life.

  Norm MacDonald

  Thinking, Good Things, Very Good

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

• If it wasn't so pointless and ridiculous, it would be more humiliating. Also, if there [Hollywood] weren't so many people as bad as myself - equally untalented people - it would be even more humiliating.

  Norm MacDonald

  People, Hollywood, Would Be

  Source: www.avclub.com

• It's a very odd thing with Hollywood, where you do stand-up, you're good at it, then they go, "How would you like to be a horrible actor?" Then you say, "All right, that sounds good. I'll do that."

  Norm MacDonald

  Sound, Hollywood, Odd Things

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

• There's no show business in Canada, so everybody just did stand-up and we all thought, "Oh, we'll just keep doing stand-up." And then I'm like, "There's more work in the States."

  Norm MacDonald

  Canada, States, Shows

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.