Words matter. These are the best Sam Kinison Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Rage only works if it is justified. That’s the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.
I have lived a carnal life.
Real comedy doesn’t just make people laugh and think, but makes them laugh and change.
Society needs a couple of vents that say what you’re not supposed to say.
I started saying things in church that didn’t meet with a lot of approval – like ‘Jesus isn’t coming back.’ They started throwing Bibles.
What am I responsible for? Who am I responsible to? Everybody? How come when Archie Bunker nailed everybody, it was funny – but when I do it, it’s not?
I’ve never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.
Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that’s supposed to be wrong, everything that’s forbidden.
So many people counted on me to be the party, I had to move far enough away that they wouldn’t want to drive there.
When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who’s the target. Comedy attacks, man.
In the 1990s, it’s OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It’s acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke… about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you’ve played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people, after you’ve done the ‘Wild Thing’ video with Jessica Hahn and every rock band from hell, you’re not gonna top that.
Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going ‘Where did I say build a water slide?’
I’m so tired of men who are afraid to hurt women’s feelings.
I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock ‘n’ roll and ex-wives. In that order.
I’m attracted to heartbreakers.
I don’t deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild.
Not that I want to put the entire rap music style down – I just don’t like it. And I know somewhere there’s gotta be another guy like that. There’s gotta be a guy just like that – just like me. There’s gotta be somebody, somewhere… Maybe, maybe an assassin type.
I’m a comedian, and my comedy has never endorsed violence towards gays.
AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That’ll get people’s attention.
My view of life is, ‘If you’re going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!
Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I’m out there promoting some anti-gay cause.
I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I’d already been banned from a couple churches for my jokes. So one day I woke up and decided it was time to start living for myself.
