Words matter. These are the best Eddie Griffin Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Those series from the ’70s and ’80s with a studio audience are dead.
It’s not always easy to go from funny on the page to funny on the screen.
There are no ‘Leave It to Beaver’ families. Everybody’s family’s got that one nut that comes to the family reunion and you’re like, OK, that guy’s here.
I’ve wanted to do a Sammy Davis Jr. story for a long time. It’s one of those pet projects that has to be done.
Everybody’s family is dysfunctional.
You know what TV is? It’s 22 minutes of selling soap.
If you got love and you believe in yourself, anything is possible.
Nobody wants people following them around 24 hours a day with a camera.
All artists are a little off.
I’ve never actually sat down and written a joke.
Stand-up is good therapy.
I love Parliament Funkadelic.
In Hollywood, you serve no wine before it’s time, give the haters no time to hate until it’s too late.
One night I went to this comedy club and paid a hard-earned $5 to get in, and every comic that came up was dry as an old turkey wishbone, as in not even close to being funny. When you’re broke and you pay $5 to see somebody, you want them to be funny.
Stand-up is dangerous. That’s what I like. You’re out there on your own.
My family is an open book. They don’t hide.
That was my first Hollywood lesson: Just because you filmed a movie doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re in it.
As far as best comedy show, Richard Prior live. The Long Beach show. That’s the apex, that’s the pinnacle. That’s what everybody’s trying to reach for. When he walked on that stage he had the red shirt on in Long Beach and when he walked on that stage to the time he left, he was on fire.
If I can relate the black experience to white people, then they can understand us better and not be so afraid.
I didn’t want to be a comedian. I was just funny. I jumped on stage and found out I was good at it.
I’ve been on stage since I was six years old… Street dancing, bugaloo, moonwalking.
What am I selling? Joy, happiness, a way to turn the ugliest ills of life on their head so you can laugh at it and not take it too serious.
When I’m telling jokes, I’m constantly in motion. I can’t stand in one place.
Me and Dave Chappelle were at Charlie Murphy’s funeral. I got up there and I got to preaching, and I took over the church.
Even the brokest Saudi got a Mercedes.
The devil is a fun character to play because he’s everywhere and no where all the time.
George Clinton was my first concert ever.
You got access to nothing, you want to use everything.
I raise successful children.
I had some major league help. Andrew Dice Clay and Robert Townsend were there for me.
Steven Segal’s a cool dude. He’s basically a blues man. He loves playing his guitar.
The whole world is one big dysfunctional family. But no matter how dysfunctional we are, we can still have a positive impact on each other’s lives. We can still try to get along together.
I am telling you, Lebanon was fun. I played for 5,000 people in a sold-out venue. The clubs there don’t even open until 4 A.M. If a bomb goes off, people don’t get excited. They live every day like it’s their last because it could possibly be.
Platform shoes will come back.
I’m old enough to remember the ’70s. The ’70s is a different time.
I’m not that cool in real life. I’m only cool in a goofy way.
Stereotypes start somewhere. There’s different sides to all of us.
My thing is to talk about life, about experiences I’ve had.
Me, I’m an avid CNN watcher.
You only live once but in my case, twice. I’m indestructible.
Getting on stage doing standup anytime is hard. You never know what you’re going to say. You live and die on your next word.
Women are empowered, and they got better jobs than their husbands.
They are trying to lock up as many of us up as possible to put us in penitentiaries for free labor. You have the government paying private prisons to feed and clothe each inmate, turning it into a damn business. And African Americans are set up for getting arrested.
Life is an endless journey through stupidity.
Everyone says, ‘What is it like to wreck a Ferrari?’ Man, it felt good, especially when you don’t have to pay for it.
America is one big dysfunctional family and we are still trying to figure out how to live together.
We need more intellect and humor back on television, instead of the lowest common denominator of comedy – like the fart joke!
We went to open-mike night at a comedy club called Stanford & Sons and the comics were terrible. My cousin dared me to get up there and, well, he was challenging my manhood. I had to do it.
Some might call my style pro-black, but I think of the basis of all my material as truth.
After my first ‘One Night Stand’ on HBO, I lost my focus. I was mad at the world. I would have meetings with directors and agents and cuss them out. I was a hothead.
I also know you’re only as good as your last show.
Comedy has a way of dealing with serious issues and finding humour in it.
I’m truly a believer that Satan was behind everything that happened in that White House, and now, the Republican party. Anything that is good for the people, they’re against it.
Life is all about cycles.
I grew up watching ‘The Jeffersons’ and ‘Good Times’ as much as I watched The Mary Tyler Moore Show’ and ‘All in the Family.’
