Colin Quinn Quotations

My stand-up act? I combine the fact that the world is a violent place with the fact that each person is responsible for the situation they are in.

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

I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you couldn't be a comedian.

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.

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

I think if you try to tailor your act to anybody, you end up with an act that doesn't work anyway.

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

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.

I think Helen of Troy must have been pretty hot. She got two countries going crazy for 10 years over her.

Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.