Quotes by Richard Lewis - Page 1

My parents were my worst audience.
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Audience
Parent
Worst
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During sex I fantasize that I'm someone else.
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Funny
Funny Sex
Sex
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For 45 years I've worked without an audience.
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Audience
Years
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I tried phone sex - it gave me an ear infection.
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Complaining
Phones
Sex
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Most Texans think Hanukkah is some sort of duck call.
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Duck
Texans
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My wife's hip, beautiful and independent and never jealous.
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Jealous
Hip
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I'm 70; I'm just glad I'm on top of the ground. Honest to God.
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Glad
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I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.
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Funny
Humor
Mirrors
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I love being famous. It validates that I have something to say.
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Famous
Being Famous
Fame
Love Is
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I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.
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Funny
Intelligence
Humorous
Therapy
Trying
Because
Analyst
Back
Behind
Help
Quit
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My performance level has risen - and my anxiety-level has sky-rocketed.
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Risen
Performance
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My act is always a work in progress. I pray I have a bad day before a show.
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Bad Day
Work Always Progress
Pray
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When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.
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Funny
Love
Glorious
Half
Humorous
Two
Witty
Life Funny Love
Life Love Your
Most
Days
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My grandmother was a Jewish juggler: she used to worry about six things at once.
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Worry
Jewish
Juggler
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There's a thin line between narcissism, even if it's a healthy narcissism, and entertainment.
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Narcissism
Thin
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I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.
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Humor
Observational
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I certainly wouldn't be a dental hygienist - they should get the Medal of Honor just to look at people's gums.
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Dental
Medal
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When I started out, I struggled, and I was broke a lot. But I'm glad I struggled, and I'm glad I was broke a lot.
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Broke
Glad
Struggled
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I didn't ever feel close to my real family. I didn't feel validated; I never felt right because I was always wrong.
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Close
Validated
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I know what my sweet spot has been. It's personal stuff, dysfunction, fear of intimacy, family stuff, psychology stuff. I eviscerate myself onstage.
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Dysfunction
Intimacy
Personal Stuff
Psychology
Spot
Onstage
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I'm psyched-up when I do radio. I can reach hundreds of thousands of people in a market. And way psyched-up when I'm on television. For people not to take it seriously is foolish.
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Foolish
People Way I Can
Hundreds
People Way Television
Hundreds Of Thousands
Thousands
Thousands Of People
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My humor is channeling everything through my brain. For example, when I talk about something, it's how Richard Lewis feels about it. I'm a storyteller. I do a lot of free association.
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Humor
Association
Channeling
For Example
Lewis
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I was way more comfortable in front of strangers than I was in front of relatives. So when they would laugh at my dysfunctions or my anxiety, I felt less alone, and I still do it for the same reason.
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Relatives
Strangers
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I never gave much thought to anything since I was 22 years old, when I got into the arts, so when Larry David came to my house in 2000, I didn't even think about it - I just thought about showing up on the set.
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Larry
Showing Up
Showing
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When I was younger, I listened to the greats: Winters, Mel and Carl, Nichols and May, Pryor, Carlin, Klein, Berman and lots of Lenny Bruce albums. But once I started doing fairly well, I didn't want to hear anybody's jokes or premises.
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Albums
Premises
Fairly
Lots
Younger
Bruce
Carlin
Greats
Lenny
Listened
Pryor
Winters
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I like to read biographies of authors that I love, like Richard Yates. I also like to see what non-fiction authors are out there. My bible is Something Happened. It's one of the greatest books I've ever read. But if I don't read a Dostoevsky soon I'm going to kill myself.
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Biographies
Book
Fiction
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I was 23, and all sorts of people were coming in and out and watching me, like Steve Allen and Bette Midler. David Brenner certainly took me under his wing. To drive home to my little dump in New Jersey often knowing that Steve Allen said, 'You got it' - that validation kept me going in a big, big way.
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Dump
Jersey
New Jersey
Validation
Home Me People
Allen
Bette
Big Way
Home Me Drive
Steve
Wing
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If you want to devote yourself to the arts, you'd better do it strictly from passion, because there is zero guarantee that you'll get anywhere. The hardest thing is dealing with business people who have nothing to do with your art. They could care less that you're up at 4:30 in the morning writing a joke. Don't expect any sympathy from anybody.
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Zero
Sympathy
Hardest Thing
Arts
Business People
Joke
Dealing
Devote
Guarantee
Strictly
The Hardest Thing
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